This past Saturday, an epic earthquake devastated Nepal, resulting in a profound death toll and an impressive response from the humanitarian and crisis-mapping community.
We’ll be updating this post with continuous maps focused on the Nepal region, the aftermath of the tremors, and the humanitarian response flooding media reports and Twitter testimonies globally. Read on for a summary of some informative maps and some how-tos on embedding maps in your next report.
Mapping Nepal: Search and Rescue
Multiple CartoDB users and fellow crisis mappers build visualizations of the USGS feed data on earthquake magnitude in Nepal.
Among these, @asheshwor built a magnitude map illustrating Nepal earthquakes by magnitude and time:
For a Torque review of the progressive quakes populating across Nepal over the weekend, @srogers put together a map of quakes by magnitude as well:
He and the team at Google also compiled an after-map illustrating humanitarian and search response post-quake:
For an understanding of the impact and some shareable data on the shake-rates of Nepalese provinces, take a look at this map of the concentric shake developments post-quake:
Feel free to use and distribute the USGS’ shake perimeter lines available in this map and applied as a layer to its precedent.
For far-view perspective on earthquake magnitude over 4.5 throughout South Asia in 2015, take a look at this Torque map from @kristianjensen5.
For a human population effect estimates by district in Nepal, check out this map and its affiliated population data set courtesy of OCHA’s emergency response team:
Satellite Imagery to Save Lives
We’re partnering with Digital Globe to provide free satellite images of Nepal from the past few days and to track recovery and rescue efforts in the days to come. Stay tuned for updates on the availablity of those data, and feel free to reach out to Aurelia and Santiago for support in integrating those satellite images with your reports. Take a look at the New York Times before and after imagery from Nepal for a view of what’s possible in satellite.
Share your Story
Curious about embedding a map of Nepal in your next report, blog, or dispatch? It’s as easy as copying an embed code from one of the maps above or one of your own:
Interested in additional How-tos with Nepal Data? Check out Andy’s tutorial on mapping Nepal with Policy Data. Interested in helping out? Check out the Open Street Map running tasks on their Nepal wiki.
Stay Tuned!