Mapping Terrorism Inwards The United States

The Oregonian has mapped all terrorist attacks inwards the U.S. from 1970-2014. The information for the map comes from the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database.

The Terrorism inwards the United States, 1970-2014 map uses round off markers to exhibit the place of each terrorist attack. The color of the markers dot where deaths, injuries or no injuries resulted from the attack. The size of the markers dot the pose out of deaths or injuries.

If y'all choose a mark on the map y'all tin read to a greater extent than details well-nigh the attack, including the twelvemonth of the educate on together with the grouping / individuals who carried out the attack.


This isn't the rootage fourth dimension that The Oregonian has mapped terrorism data. Back inwards Nov The Oregonian used CartoDB's Torque library to practise an animated map of terrorism deaths unopen to the globe from 2001-2014. Deaths yesteryear Terrorism, 2001-2014 shows worldwide fatal terrorist attacks yesteryear month.

On its ain the animated map layer powerfulness bring been a footling crass, reducing thousands of deaths to footling flashing dots on a map. However The Oregonian has too added a duo of other information layers to the map to furnish some much needed context.

The 'Deaths yesteryear Country' selection adds a choropleth layer to the map, showing the pose out of terrorism deaths yesteryear reason unopen to the world. The 'Narrative' selection allows y'all to choose each private terrorist educate on on the map to sentiment a summary well-nigh the educate on together with the master copy intelligence source for the data.