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Scientific speciality / seismology

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http://plateboundary.rice.edu/downloads.html

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Scientific speciality / seismology

 

Earthquake which can cause tsunami as well.  We can see that the strongest are located near Japan, Indonesia, and Andes. Mainly earthquakes happen where different plates crash. You can see that in the image, where the red dots occur.

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Tropical Depression

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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/sep/map-where-do-hurricanes-do-the-most-damage/

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Tropical Depression

Repartition of Tropical depression in the world, we can see the most impacted area like Japan or the Gulf of Mexico. The map shows the past 150 years of hurricanes on earth until 2005. As you can see, the most powerful hurricanes of category five appear in the area around Japan. This is due to the high sea temperature in this region

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Number of drought disasters as recorded by EMDAT (1974-2004)

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http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/maps/v.php?id=10600

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Number of drought disasters as recorded by EMDAT (1974-2004)

Map of drought repartition were we can see that Africa, India, United states, Australia are the most affected by drought. For example Africa was exposed in some parts to up to nine droughts in the time span, which influenced local people and moreover also the major income like agriculture (e.g., crops don’t get enough water).

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Europe Literacy Rates

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www.mapsofworld.com

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Europe Literacy Rates

Map showing the impressive literacy rates of the numerous countries of Europe.

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Literacy Rates Map

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UN Human Development Report

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Literacy Rates Map

World map with nations color-coded based on their literacy rates.

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Storm risk in India

Submitted by Christine on

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http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc02/pap0701/p0701.htm

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Storm risk in India

The image shows a risk map of India, which was developed using a geoinformation software. The map uses historical data to visualize the past storm areas.

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World health care infrastructure

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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/752049.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/nie99-17d.htm&h=920&w=1425&sz=222&tbnid=u9q4Ifz6ssFMwM&tbnh=180&tbnw=280&zoom=1&usg=__EUJhO2E7sgZsuw21CgNmNmYeRJ0=&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=XswaULHqF-H6igKCoICYAQ&ved=0CF8Q8g0

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World health care infrastructure

This map is showing the global health care infrastructure

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Us Chronic disease expenditure

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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WkJxhVYldJQ/T-So_ZwsY1I/AAAAAAAAAFk/495noIBlnSw/s1600/chronic%2Bdisease%2Binfographic.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.sweeterspoon.com/2012/06/american-health-paradox.html&h=1275&w=1500&sz=493&tbnid=73Ivbi_LUqi8fM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=109&zoom=1&usg=__wPh8nClyjG9EauGxEK9vzMtX2HE=&docid=js0zEGio_O4omM&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=T8saUOmSAZDuigLZnoCgCQ&ved=0CEQQ9QEwAg&dur=520

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Us Chronic disease expenditure

This map is showing the evolution of US chronic disease expenditure between 2003 and 2023.

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