http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/27/track-the-hurricane-updated-maps-show-numbers-affected/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/27/track-the-hurricane-updated-maps-show-numbers-affected/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:24:36 +0000 Elisabeth Sydor http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17122 As Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast, the number of people affected is rising. Based on calculations at 2 pm on Saturday, more than 47 million people were within 100 miles of the storm track; and nearly 69 million within 200 miles, according to Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network(CIESIN). Visit CIESIN’s [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/27/track-the-hurricane-updated-maps-show-numbers-affected/feed/ 0