The earthquake was felt throughout most of California and into Nevada and Oregon. The earthquake and resulting fires caused an estimated 3000 deaths and $524 million in property loss. The map above shows the intensity of ground shaking across the felt area of the earthquake. Intensity levels ...
Plan your route.Using the eclipse map and your basemap of choice underneath it,draw out your routeon foot, in the car, or via bike to find a prime viewing spot. Look for high points, clearings, and places with less chance of storms. Also, keep in mind which roads may clog up with ...
The map rollout, which started earlier this month and will continue through late March, follows a Feb. 6executive orderfrom Gov. Gavin Newsom to better prepare the state for urban firestorms in the wake of the catastrophic Los Angeles fires. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, among ...
On Wednesday, air quality in New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Washington, D.C., were among the top 30 worst major cities in the world, according to the Swiss air quality technology companyIQAir. As of Wednesday, most of Canada's active fires were classified as "out of control," w...
Public Safety Maps of Natural Disasters: Fires, Floods, Hurricanes, Earthquakes: Salvation Army, Red Cross Shelters, Emergency Response Centers.
globally with a new layer on Google Maps," Rebecca Moore, the director of Google Earth and Earth Engine,wrote in a blog post. "With the wildfire layer, you can get up-to-date details about multiple fires at once, allowing you to make quick, informed decisions during times of emergency....
For example, in some of their fMRI studies Lobben and her colleagues have noticed interesting activity in the parahippocampal place area, a brain region that seems to respond preferentially for images of places. Other researchers have found that the PPA, as it's known for short, fires up ...
We measure fires by acreage, but the sudden spikes of air quality, while not exceeding the smoke that funneled into the Bay Area during the North Bay Fires in 2017, when the Tubbs and Atlas Fires devastated much of the Wine Country, created a run of high-smoke days, were followed by ...
IAEG Commission No. 1—Engineering Geological Maps—is developing a guide to hazard maps. Scientists from 17 countries have participated. This pa
and flying embers from coal-powered locomotives and a lack of spring rain. As summer progressed, lightning storms stuck and started more fires. In August, a hurricane-force wind storm picked up and turned small fires into infernos which burned 3 million acres of land in two days and decimat...