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Thursday, December 3, 2020

San Francisco Is On Shaky Ground


The New York Times carried a worrying storey yesterday virtually San Francisco's jeopardy amongst edifice skyscrapers on dry soil prone to earthquakes. The metropolis loves to jeopardy then much that they are fifty-fifty edifice the tallest skyscrapers inward the areas of the metropolis where the basis is most at jeopardy of liquefaction.

As you lot would await the Times' storey is illustrated amongst its customary impressive mapped visualizations. I peculiarly similar the icon transition nigh the commencement of the Times' San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble. In 1906 an airship took a spectacular aerial photograph of the metropolis showing the harm caused past times the recent earthquake as well as fire. As you lot scroll downward the page the 1906 icon of San Francisco seamlessly transitions into a modern instance of the metropolis from the exact same position. The modern instance shows all the skyscrapers similar a shot built on tumble out of the areas of the metropolis devastated past times the 1906 earthquake.

Another effective visualization inward the storey is a map of all the buildings inward the metropolis to a greater extent than than 240 tall overlaid on tumble out of a choropleth layer showing the areas of the metropolis at jeopardy from liquefaction. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 end map shows the areas of San Francisco which are expected to sense potent shaking during a big earthquake.