The (Most Depressing) Maps Of The Week

Are you lot prepared for a global pandemic? If an unknown breed of smallpox all of a abrupt emerged inward your neighborhood, how long would you lot survive?

You tin flaming notice out amongst Ubisoft's novel online pandemic simulation map. Collapse presents a imitation pandemic outbreak centered to a greater extent than or less your abode too neighborhood. At the get-go of the simulation you lot are infected amongst an unknown breed of smallpox. As the simulation plays out the map shows how the infection could spread through your immediate neighborhood, the residue of the province too eventually the residue of the world.

The map makes extensive purpose of the Google Places API to demo how real-word actions could chop-chop Pb to a widespread pandemic. Unfortunately all those local businesses that characteristic inward your personalized neighborhood map are unlikely to live on ane time all your neighbors direct keep died.


If the idea of a global smallpox pandemic hasn't depressed you lot plenty too then you lot tin flaming depress yourself farther amongst this interactive map of global safety risks. The RiskMap is a new, complimentary to purpose safety too risk mapping portal. The map allows you lot to access intelligence too real-time intelligence most the electrical current risk province of affairs inward countries to a greater extent than or less the world.

Countries on RiskMap are colored based on the electrical current global risk level; the colors displayed hit from greenish (safe) to carmine (critically unsafe). The map likewise displays hundreds of the latest events too incidents related to safety events across the globe.

RiskMap looks at events too incidents of involvement from over 1,000 different sources, It calculates the risk represented past times each of these incidents too attempts to position the type of risk posed too the facts of the incident such equally the number of fatalities or casualties, It too then selects the most of import data from the master copy source too creates a summarized re-create of the lawsuit for the map.


Now to depress you lot fifty-fifty farther nosotros direct keep you lot to Hell too High Water.

On September 11th 2008 the National Weather Service issued a severe alert to Houston residents,

ALL NEIGHBORHOODS, AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES, WILL BE INUNDATED. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH.

The alert was issued because of the imminent threat of Hurricane Ike, which at the fourth dimension was heading straight towards primal Houston. Luckily, on September 13th, Hurricane Ike shifted course of report too eventually striking terra firma a footling due north of the city. The tempest yet caused $30 billion inward impairment too killed at to the lowest degree 74 people inward Texas.

The Texas Tribune too ProPublica combat that it is solely a thing of fourth dimension earlier a perfect tempest will striking Houston, potentially killing thousands of residents.

Hell too High Water is a mapped visualization of the dangers Houston faces from a hereafter hurricane. The mapped interactive simulates the probable effects of a number of potential storms on the metropolis of Houston. Each of these simulations overlays the rails of a potential tempest over a satellite sentiment of the city. These tracks are too then animated to demo the probable flooding events that could direct keep house inward Houston if such a tempest striking the city.