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Graph 6 | Sendai earthquake: Pacific tsunami (1)
The cataclysmic 11 March 2011 Sendai earthquake caused a trans-oceanic tsunami. The following was an early projection of the tsunami size in different parts of the Pacific.
Predicted size of the tsunami caused
by the 2011 Sendai earthquake
Date added: 14 March 2011
Source of image: BBC
Source of data: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Graph 5 | Sendai earthquake: Pacific tsunami (2)
Here is another map from NOAA showing the estimated size of the Pacific tsunami of 11-12 March 2011. It is not clear whether this was based on earlier or later data than the map above.
Estimated size of the Pacific tsunami caused
by the 2011 Sendai earthquake
Date added: 14 March 2011
Source of image: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Source of data: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Graph 4 | Chelsea outpaces Portsmouth in English football league
Despite being beset by financial woes, Portsmouth made it into the 2010 English FA Cup final, where it met Chelsea, the new English football champions. Chelsea won that match by the narrowest of margins (1-0), suggesting that the gap between the two sides is only slim, but the following graph from www.footballgraphs.co.uk shows that the gap may in fact be bigger than at any time since Portsmouth first joined the English football league.
Chelsea and Portsmouth football clubs:
Performance in the English football league, 1906-2010
Date added: 16 May 2010
Source of graph: Football Graphs
Graph 3 | Soaring liver disease death rates in Britain
In 2007, over 1200 men in Britain aged just 35-49 years died from cirrhosis of the liver. That is 11 times more than in 1970, when the population of 35-49-year old men was only a bit smaller. By 2007, cirrhosis accounted for 1 in 10 male deaths—and 1 in 12 female deaths—at this age. The main cause of cirrhosis in Britain is, as in many other places, the consumption of alcohol.
Mortality trends for cirrhosis of the liver:
35-49 years of age, United Kingdom
Date added: 7 March 2010
Source of graph: Mortality Trends (see the 'Choose a graph' section)
Source of data: World Health Organization and
United Nations Population Division
Graph 2 | Predicted height of tsunami following Chile quake
The following map appeared on a news website a few hours after a colossal earthquake struck on Chile on 27 February 2010.
Projected height of tsunami: 27-28 February 2010
Date added: 7 March 2010
Source of graph: BBC news website
Source of data: unknown
Graph 1 | A new 'one-billion-person' entity
In 2009, the population of the mother-continent, Africa, passed 1 billion. Africa thus joined China and India as a one-billion-person entity. India achieved that demographic state in 1998, China in 1981, and the world as a whole, in around 1805.
Population of China, India and Africa:
all ages, 1950-2010
Date added: 7 March 2010
Source of graph: Mortality Trends ('special' graph, no. 66)
Source of data: United Nations Population Division
