Random Maps Thread

these kind of popular cars maps are so off for some reason.
every single one has some random car you don't expect.

then there's the diff of sold cars in a year vs. existing cars that are insured....blah blah.

https://www.edmunds.com/most-popular-cars/

The Tesla Model Y is the top-selling EV nationally and was in the top 5 selling vehicles in 5 different States.

But you click on the Model Y and only California lights up......

 

RE: The Cali map

That is a really cool map. Beautiful actually.

 

One problem with the way we built roads in the Western US is that we always went through the valleys, which cut off and segmented wildlife. It's why we're seeing more support for animal bridges that connect highway-created islands of populations.

 

top comment on fb . . . "I can see Grease."

 

This is the first year in NFL history that all of the Lake Erie teams (Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo) have made the playoffs in the same season.

 

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-earthquakes.html

 

Here's a geophysical hazard map of the Pacific Northwest. Those arrows pointing at each other off the coast is the Cascadia Subduction Zone where the broken Pacific plates are being driven under the North American plate. When it ruptures, the North American plate will lurch 6-8 feet to the west, an earthquake of 5-9 minutes will occur, and a massive tsunami will appear in about 15 minutes. We're right about at average length between historic earthquakes and one could happen anytime over the next 50-150 years. On the volcano side, all are at normal background levels of activity this week.

 

Egad. Maybe the tsunami will put out those widespread wildfires predicted from climate change...

Would that rupture affect plates further down south like the California coast or the San Andreas?

 

Maybe, maybe no

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/87552930231215428

 

Maryland is a weird state.

 

A few lines and a river boundary. Not that unusual as Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and others have similar river boundaries and lines. Same with West Virginia, which always looked weirder to me. Only odd thing is the District carved out of it and the Delmarva peninsula is split three ways.

 

Yeah, I think most geologists who study this stuff think probably not and there doesn't seem to be much evidence of it happening in the past. Still some uncertainty though.

 

Old article...but still interesting info about that slim part that connects eastern and western Maryland. It's about 1.9 miles north-to-south.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-08-vw-12768-story.html

 

Maybe a dumb question, would it move all that distance at once? Or over the course of 5 to 9 minutes?

 

Suddenly. Violently.

This article has some flaws, but is a decent summary of what we're facing. (Since the article, one school on the Washington coast has built a tsunami tower on the hill.)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one