A map showing Super Typhoon Haiyan superimposed over the continental United States has gone viral. It's all wrong.
Here's the image, supposedly (actually?) created by the Red Cross:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/typhoon-haiyan-map_n_4256302.html
In the images below, provided by the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center, Haiyan and Katrina are pictured side by side. The image on the left shows what it would've looked like had Haiyan landed near the Gulf of Mexico, while the one on the right is an actual image of Hurricane Katrina:
Last week, in the hope of providing some perspective to those outside the Philippines as to the massive scale of this disaster, Derek Medlin, an editor at CBS-affiliate WRAL.com, tweeted a photograph of what it would've looked like if the typhoon had made landfall near North Carolina:
In the images below, provided by the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center, Haiyan and Katrina are pictured side by side. The image on the left shows what it would've looked like had Haiyan landed near the Gulf of Mexico, while the one on the right is an actual image of Hurricane Katrina:
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