08 February, 2010

Haiti map

This map is from a site called Relief Web http://www.reliefweb.int. It was not my first choice but the best maps I found were in pdf. The map here, which may be hard to see adequately in this jpeg, was compiled on the 12th of January 2010, and shows potentially affected population areas (population increases from pale blue to dark blue and then yellow to red to purple; the legend is hard to read here) in the earthquake-hit regions. Also indicated is the magnitude of earthquake shocks in concentric circles - blue to yellow to red as the impact increases - various population symbols, and some other items such as the location of World Food Program offices.
This is a fairly small-scale map so it doesn't show great detail and wouldn't/shouldn't be used for, say, finding a route to the World Food Program office, but it does indicate how powerful the earthquake has been and how large the population is that has been affected.

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