Just recently, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit a remote county in the Qinghai province of China, and officials say that nearly six hundred people died, with thousands being injured. This occurred about two years after a similar earthquake that occurred in the neighboring province of Sichuan. The map attached (from the BBC) gives the location of the quake as well as two inlet maps: one of Qinghai province's location in China and within it, its location in the world.
And just recently, I created a couple of maps using two interpolation methods: Inverse Distance Weighting and Kriging. Both of them are about the annual precipitation patterns in Idaho.
Inverse Distance Weighting
This is a fairly complex map and brings into detail the contour lines in Idaho. In fact, there are small, isolated contour pockets surrounding certain weather stations
Kriging
The map simply puts that in Idaho, it typically rains more in the north than it does in the south. While it is easy to understand, there are still some discontinues present, and the contour lines are drawn mostly based upon the geographical surroundings.
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