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Natural Disasters:

History of Thrust and Megathrust earthquakes

  • point data and radius of effect (does magnitude have associated radius?)
  • Seismic Activity? Livestream from somewhere monitoring online?

History of Floods in Mexico

  • Raster surface showing former incidents of flood? SRTM data to show lowland elevations more prone to flooding?

History of Hurricanes

  • show historical paths and extrapolate general high risk areas based on more common corrodors.
  • both atlantic and pacific hurricanes

Mexican Fire Season

  • Use NDVI analysis to determine high risk areas. Potentially difference areas of high vegetation in the wet season and look for the highest change come dry season. This may prove useful as an indicator of fuel capacity.

Volcanos/Volcano fields

Mudslides/Landslides

Extreme Temperature

  • surface temperature data to determine typical hottest regions (or regions that experience dangerous temperatures)

This article statistically describes natural disaster impacts in mexico:

http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/statistics/?cid=112

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