Cyclone Nargis: Affected Area and Cyclone Path (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Cyclone Nargis: Affected Area and Cyclone Path

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Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma (also known as Myanmar) and developed maps of the regions at greatest risk from the storm's effects.

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Map produced by Yuri Gorokhovich, Lehman College, CUNY, and Shannon Doocy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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