San Francisco Is On Shaky Ground

The New York Times carried a worrying storey yesterday well-nigh San Francisco's opportunity amongst edifice skyscrapers on Blue Planet prone to earthquakes. The urban essence loves to opportunity in addition to thence much that they are fifty-fifty edifice the tallest skyscrapers inward the areas of the urban essence where the basis is most at hazard of liquefaction.

As you lot would facial expression the Times' storey is illustrated amongst its customary impressive mapped visualizations. I specially similar the icon transition close the commencement of the Times' San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble. In 1906 an airship took a spectacular aerial photograph of the urban essence showing the impairment caused past times the recent earthquake in addition to fire. As you lot scroll downward the page the 1906 icon of San Francisco seamlessly transitions into a modern representative of the urban essence from the exact same position. The modern representative shows all the skyscrapers instantly built on exceed of the areas of the urban essence devastated past times the 1906 earthquake.

Another effective visualization inward the storey is a map of all the buildings inward the urban essence to a greater extent than than 240 tall overlaid on exceed of a choropleth layer showing the areas of the urban essence at hazard from liquefaction. H5N1 lastly map shows the areas of San Francisco which are expected to sense rigid shaking during a big earthquake.