New San Francisco Is On Shaky Ground


The New York Times carried a worrying even out yesterday almost San Francisco's run a jeopardy amongst edifice skyscrapers on solid pose down prone to earthquakes. The urban core loves to run a jeopardy together with then much that they are fifty-fifty edifice the tallest skyscrapers inwards the areas of the urban core where the basis is most at jeopardy of liquefaction.

As y'all would facial expression the Times' even out is illustrated amongst its customary impressive mapped visualizations. I peculiarly similar the picture transition close the foremost of the Times' San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble. In 1906 an airship took a spectacular aerial photograph of the urban core showing the harm caused past times the recent earthquake together with fire. As y'all scroll downwardly the page the 1906 picture of San Francisco seamlessly transitions into a modern representative of the urban core from the exact same position. The modern representative shows all the skyscrapers forthwith built on exceed of the areas of the urban core devastated past times the 1906 earthquake.

Another effective visualization inwards the even out is a map of all the buildings inwards the urban core to a greater extent than than 240 tall overlaid on exceed of a choropleth layer showing the areas of the urban core at jeopardy from liquefaction. H5N1 concluding map shows the areas of San Francisco which are expected to sense potent shaking during a big earthquake.
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