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2 points by jlturner 9y ago

shpx 9y ago
Sadly this is only for California. I was looking at worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov during the BC wildfires[0] last summer. Here's a particularly bad day in September https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_All,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines(hidden)&t=2017-09-06&z=3&v=-143.48275090126558,26.87028210436393,-90.31336811621935,60.10114634501782&ab=off&as=2017-09-06&ae=2017-09-13&av=3&al=true https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_S... Here's today https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_All,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines(hidden) https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_S... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfire...
mankash666 9y ago
Slightly off topic - a friend from England opined that Europe has a much lower incidence of natural calamities compared to the US. Fewer earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, droughts,... Is this true and why?
- nostrademons 9y ago
  I would bet that it doesn't actually have a lower incidence of natural calamities - Santorini, Pompeii, routine earthquakes & avalanches in the Alps, flooding in the Netherlands & Venice, wildfires in Southern Europe, etc. are evidence of that. I'd bet that it has a lower incidence of natural calamities near populated areas that negatively affect the population. And the reason for that is evolution. European settlements have been around for thousands of years. Anything built near a place prone to natural disasters that might wipe out the population has already had its population wiped out. By contrast, many large American cities are incredibly new - Houston and the Bay Area (two metros recently in the news for natural disasters) have only held their current megalopolis status for about half a century. Indeed, if you restrict to only old U.S. cities (like Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, etc.), most of them are in locations that are relatively free of natural disasters.
  - jmnicolas 9y ago
    I think you have no idea how densely populated Europe is. There are people everywhere including dangerous zones.
- brudgers 9y ago
  News about Europe ignores what happens in the vastness of Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_wildfires, i.e. Russia is only a European country when it fits one narrative over another. The US narrative is transcontinental and so fires in California are national news.

2 points by jlturner 9y ago

shpx 9y ago

Sadly this is only for California. I was looking at worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov during the BC wildfires[0] last summer. Here's a particularly bad day in September https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_All,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines(hidden)&t=2017-09-06&z=3&v=-143.48275090126558,26.87028210436393,-90.31336811621935,60.10114634501782&ab=off&as=2017-09-06&ae=2017-09-13&av=3&al=true https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_S... Here's today https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_All,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines(hidden) https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_S... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfire...

mankash666 9y ago

Slightly off topic - a friend from England opined that Europe has a much lower incidence of natural calamities compared to the US. Fewer earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, droughts,... Is this true and why?

nostrademons 9y ago
I would bet that it doesn't actually have a lower incidence of natural calamities - Santorini, Pompeii, routine earthquakes & avalanches in the Alps, flooding in the Netherlands & Venice, wildfires in Southern Europe, etc. are evidence of that. I'd bet that it has a lower incidence of natural calamities near populated areas that negatively affect the population. And the reason for that is evolution. European settlements have been around for thousands of years. Anything built near a place prone to natural disasters that might wipe out the population has already had its population wiped out. By contrast, many large American cities are incredibly new - Houston and the Bay Area (two metros recently in the news for natural disasters) have only held their current megalopolis status for about half a century. Indeed, if you restrict to only old U.S. cities (like Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, etc.), most of them are in locations that are relatively free of natural disasters.
- jmnicolas 9y ago
  I think you have no idea how densely populated Europe is. There are people everywhere including dangerous zones.
brudgers 9y ago
News about Europe ignores what happens in the vastness of Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_wildfires, i.e. Russia is only a European country when it fits one narrative over another. The US narrative is transcontinental and so fires in California are national news.