Events impacting the Department of Geography, Geographic Information Science and Meteorology at Western Illinois University

Department of Geography, Geographic Information Science and Meteorology
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL 61455

The map shows the total number of days from 2000 through 2019 where there were natural disturbance event notifications for the county (shaded polygon) and geographic footprint (shaded circle) of the department.

Shading represents the department and county's values relative to the range of values for all departments in the study over this time period.

Note that data sources for alert notifications include FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (2012-2019), FEMA's Disaster Declarations API (2000-2019), and the USGS Earthquake Catalog API (2000-2019). The largest number of notifications are from FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System.