Now that the hurricane season is here, is a good
idea to check the national hurricane center
in case you are planning any travelling in certain parts of the world. We also
have numerous news of flash floods and flooding events all around the planet
and if you are paying attention, these are very frequent.
To help prepare and/or visualize worldwide natural
catastrophes, there are currently several websites you can use, most of them based
on Google maps, some still beta, and most of them including tectonic plates-which
makes perfect sense to geologists-. I have included a few here.
-The National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling
and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates Emergency and Disaster
Information Service (EDIS) within
the frame of his own web site
which has the objective to monitor and document all the events on Earth which
may cause disaster or emergency.
-The NOAA
viewer website is also useful to point out how active the Ring of Fire is.
Also, their billion-dollar weather and climate disaster map is very telling as
well –see image on the left-.
-Another resource that is very useful is the information
from insurance companies. An example of the losses of 2015 is below, from artemis.
As you can see, catastrophes are everywhere and that is why
we will be exploring all these in the Fall during our Geol9
course at MPC.
Should be fun.
Should be fun.
Buckle up-
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