Images

For my first screen shot I wanted to capture my building progress, if you look closely youwill be able to see my hotels that I built in the far top left corner.  Not only did I just build the hotels but I also reinforced them and raised the height of them from the ground.



If you take a look at this picture I wanted to capture what I did along the coast of the ocean.  I put in numerous defense mechanisms for the safety of my community.  A few of these defenses were sad doons along with trees to stop the force of the tsunami comming in.  Another thing that I did that you can not see is in the ocean I bought a reader that records seismic activity and gives the town an extra four hours of warning.

In this image I wanted to capture where I located my school, I placed it right behind the huge cliffs to have them stop the power of the waves coming through and I also raised the height of the school and the structural stability. 

During the kill them all section, this screen shot shows my efforts of building the lowest sheltered houses available and placing them right next to the ocean.

This screen shot shows me attempting to build the main buildings such as the hospital, school, and hotels right next to the ocean, and not even having enough shelter for everybody in my village. 

 

As you can see here, in my defense to try and save as many people as I could I built all the houses needed to shelter people right next to each other and surrounded them with fire resistant trees that in the end actually worked and saved a lot of people.

 

As you can see in the above image it is very clear to see my strategy for preventing a natural disaster like a flood from killing so many people.  I first built a lot of the new buildings for people to stay in at elevated locations in case there was an actual flood.  The next things I did were to put a bunch of drainage systems all over the place and to incorporate levees and marshland to stop flooding from occurring.

This map shows The history of california fires that have happened between the years of 2007-2009.  the paradigm approach that I am using for this specific data would be the enginerring approach because this type of data looks at the locations of where the disasters occured along with the magnitude and frequency of the natural hazard at certian locations .  In order for this map to show a complexity paradigm approach you will have to look more indepth on how the disaster impacts can be reduced in a sustainable way in the future.  So this image would have to look at the interactions between nature and soceity to improve long term management of hazards.

I used This picture above to show one of the many ways in which global warming is currently happening around the world.  The emmissions of greenhouse gases is one of the leading causes for Co2 being put in the air and ultimitaly trapping heat that is trying to leave

     I Chose to put this picture up from my exercise 3 lab because we learned in class that Southeast Asia was one of the hardest hit in terms of natural disasters on a year round basis and as you can clearly see that is the case.  There are tons of earthquakes that have the highest magnitudes in this location and it can be very deadly to the people that are living there.

This picture shows the September Drought in the year 2012.  As you can see it is clear that the middle of the United States and off to the East are severily effected by the drough that is happening which in turn is going to cause agricultural and food concerns now and in the future.

United states forecast service, MAPPS team—Raymond Drapek

As you can see in the picture above, I am showing a transparent layer of current crop yields ontop of the layer of soils to see where the higher crop yields are in comparison to the soil and drough.  In areas where you normally have high soil and crop yields; they are actually lower because of the drought.

With the winter months right around the corner this is a likely situation to happen in Eau Claire Wisconsin so it is necessary to take precautions before winter strikes to make sure we have adequate supplies and information to keep us safe.

This picture above shows a road that was swept away by heavy rainfall; this is a perfect example of a swiss cheese model, where if something can go wrong it will go wrong because it seems like it woul dbe very hard to get around this and it could cause problems with rescue efforts.

For this map, we are looking at areas where Earthquakes are likely to occur around the fault lines that they are around, but we are also looking at urban areas in regards to risk assessment and management.

 

 

The only layer that I currently have on for this map is the liquification layer.  I only have this one one because when you look at the very high or high liquification area of Northridge you also have the exact same areas that show high building damage density and unsafe building statuses.  They are relate to eachother.

In the map above you are looking at the the peak ground acceleration in the shaded grey and black areas, the green dots are the stations, and the blue areas are the building damage density.  as you can see where you have low pga you also have low building damage.

 

 

This shows the Raritan River after Hurricane sandy went through.  In some areas people needed to be evacuated by boat, but luckily around this area nobody was seriously injured but as an obvious consequency; vehicle damage is high.

 

 

 This landslide above is not one that actually occured in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy but it shows a good representation of what they are like. I talked about in my blog about how you need to be especially careful when driving because things like these are likely to occur along embankments.

 

This picture shows president Obama with Mayor Bloomberg.  Bloomberg has recently gone public in his decision to support president Obama; which may have huge impacts in helping president Obama win a second term of office.

 

The picture above shows Breezy Queens New York City after 111 homes were destroyed by fire.  When aid attempted to put out the fire, fire trucks were haulted and had a terrible time being able to do anything because of the massive flooding that was also occuring. 

 

The image above is very hard to see, but the general idea of the map is to show where the top five countries are that have the most volcanic activity.  The countries are highlighted in blue.  The top five countries are indonesia, Japan, United states, russia, and Italy from most to least volcanic activity. 

 

This is my boring map right now, cant wait till my next one!

 

slight upgrade from my previous picture.  You can see clearly where the lahar flows actually are.

 This map shows Mount St. Helens before it erupted and the picture below shows Mount St. Helens after it erupted. As you can see there are major differences in terms of the structure of the mountain/volcano and the land around the volcano after it erupted is different.

This map shows the loss volume of Mt. St. Helens.  As you can clearly see the direction of the explosion was north on the map causing alot of land to be lost during the explosion on the mountain.

This map shows mass wasting/Landslide probability.

This map currently shows that the higher elevation which is colored in purple is basically a mirror image of the layer slope that i have on there as well.  the darker areas represent no slope at all.

This would be the map that I show when I am bringing a law suit against the people who movied the stream.  I constructed my map like this becasue it shows that the parcells are located right ontop of a very dangerous slope all across the board and they made them right below a barren area that are more likely to give out.  and when you look closely, you can se they tried moving the stream around the parcels but when the flow happened it did not follow the stream at all and went right through all of the parcells.

This map above shows the 100 year flood if it were to occur in a given year and what would happen.  As you can see the flood with actually be a pretty big one.  The campus of Eau Claire would be greatly impacted by it along with many residential buildings around the water.

This map above shows the 790 ft elevation for this flood and as you can see from the first map to the second one how big of a difference ten feet will do!  All of the buildings on lower campus are almost flooded over along with the east side of the river.

 

This map does not do that much justice for me.  I tried increasing the elevation and everything of the buildings.  If you look at it a little bit closer though you will see that the dark areas of the map are the low areas of Eau claire that were effected by the flood.  If you look at the map just above this one it almost shows the exact same thing where the buildings on lower campus were effected by the flood but others were not. 

If you look at this map above you will see that I got into the Christmas them using a snow look for the hurricane innundation layer.  This map shows the different buildings that are at risk for coastal flooding.  The yellow buildings are the schools that are at risk, the green buildings are the emergency buildings at risk and the red buildings are the midical buildings at risk.  There are a total of 51 buildings at risk in this map.

 

The map above shows the relation between populated areas and water depth.  The light purple in the background that extends all the way inland is my category 3 population index saying that in a category three hurricane you get water that reaches all the way out there to the people living.  The bright red on my map indicates the highest level of water, than the dark purple, almost blue color indicates a little bit lower levels; until you reach all the way out the the category three population record.  As you can see the deepest levels of water are right next to the ocean which can wipe out many people.