New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Australia & Oceania

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Caribbean

Turkmenistan

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Central Asia

China

Japan

Nepal

Taiwan

East Asia

Russia

Georgia

Eurasia

Iceland

Greece

Italy

Europe

Nicaragua

Chile

Argentina

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

Guatemala

Panama

Peru

El Salvador

Latin America

Vanuatu

None

Canada

United States

Mexico

North America

Pakistan

Bhutan

India

South Asia

Philippines

Myanmar

Indonesia

Laos

Thailand

Malaysia

Southeast Asia

Iran

Turkey

Morocco

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Malawi

Tanzania

Mozambique

Sub-Saharan Africa

A world map of earthquake activity from 2000 to 2019. Circles of varying sizes represent earthquake magnitudes, with larger circles for higher magnitudes. Significant activity is noted in Colombia, Iran, Turkey, Tanzania, and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Time series data showing locations and Richter scale magnitudes of significant earthquakes from 1800 BCE to 2019. Use timeline controls at bottom of the map to display data by time period.

Earthquakes

World

NOAA

Richter scale magnitude

The 2012 presidential election in the United States pitted incumbent President and Democrat Barack Obama against Republican Mitt Romney. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2012 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. Romney won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned as being won by Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.

Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election

US Counties

Data.gov

U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2012 

Alabama

Alaska

Alberta

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Manitoba

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Newfoundland and Labrador

North Carolina

North Dakota

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ohio

Oklahoma

Ontario

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Prince Edward Island

Québec

Rhode Island

Saskatchewan

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Yukon

A map of North America shows regions based on the number of milk-producing cows. Dark blue (highest numbers) in Texas and California. Light blue is seen in the north of Canada, while moderate blue covers southern Canada and central and northern U S A.

Number of milk cows in North America by state or province

US / CA States

USDA

Milk Cows

Cows

A map highlights various agricultural regions across North America using a high-contrast color scheme.

Agricultural regions of North America

Agricultural Regions

The regions are classified as follows: Red color represents specialty crop or livestock farming, found in Portland, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Blue color represents mixed farming, prominent in regions of Omaha, and Saint Louis. Purple color represents commercial wheat and other small grain farming, covering large areas of the central United States, North Dakota, and southern parts of Canada. Orange color represents dairy farming, concentrated in the northeastern United States, including New York, and parts of the Midwest. Yellow color represents general farming, seen in Cincinnati, Missouri, Edmonton, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, and Charlottetown. Green color represents livestock ranching predominantly in the western United States, including areas of Texas. Boise, Nevada, Idaho, Helena, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Denver, Utah and New Mexico. Brown color represents irrigated agriculture, located in specific regions of the western United States. Pink color represents Mediterranean agriculture (with irrigation), specific to regions like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Gray color represents nonfarming areas, covering vast stretches of the western United States.