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  1. Alex Kappel revised this gist Jul 18, 2014. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
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    **Drought**
    - Rain information from weather stations and inter-station interpolations?


    ## Other Resources
    **This page statistically describes natural disaster impacts in mexico:**

    - http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/statistics/?cid=112
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    **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.
    - Understand general wind directions (Look at [hadley cells](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell)?) to look at potential fire spread patterns from high risk site origins.

    **Volcanos/Volcano fields**
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michoac%C3%A1n%E2%80%93Guanajuato_volcanic_field
    - ^ covers much of west-cenral Mexico
    - Seismic Activity? Livestream from somewhere monitoring online?
    - SRTM to see areas that might be subject to lava flows

    **Mudslides/Landslides**
    - SRTM data to determine at-risk areas (areas below large slopes)
    - http://www.weather.com/news/tropical-disaster-mexico-update-death-toll-rises-115-20130923

    **Extreme Temperature**
    - surface temperature data to determine typical hottest regions (or regions that experience dangerous temperatures)
    - Weather station data.

    **Drought**
    -
    - Rain information from weather stations and inter-station interpolations?

    **This page statistically describes natural disaster impacts in mexico:**

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

    **This is the central page from the above resource and has a number of links to useful information and narratives:**
    http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/americas/mex/

    - http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/americas/mex/

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    **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:
    **Drought**
    -

    **This page statistically describes natural disaster impacts in mexico:**

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

    **This is the central page from the above resource and has a number of links to useful information and narratives:**
    http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/americas/mex/

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    Natural Disasters:
    ## Natural Disasters:

    **History of Thrust and Megathrust earthquakes**
    - point data and radius of effect (does magnitude have associated radius?)
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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**
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michoac%C3%A1n%E2%80%93Guanajuato_volcanic_field
    - ^ covers much of west-cenral Mexico
    - Seismic Activity? Livestream from somewhere monitoring online?

    **Mudslides/Landslides**
    - SRTM data to determine at-risk areas (areas below large slopes)
    - http://www.weather.com/news/tropical-disaster-mexico-update-death-toll-rises-115-20130923

    **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