Visualizing the Gulf Oil Spill

The explosion at the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed eleven crew members on April 20, 2010 and sparked what is looking to be one of the largest environmental disaster in United States history. Current estimates put the amount of oil being discharged from the broken well at above 1,050,000 US gallons per day.

For those of us far removed from the disaster, it’s difficult to fathom it’s size. IfItWasMyHome.com attempts to provide some scale by allowing users to overlay the oil slick on top of a map of their hometown.

Here’s where I live, in San Francisco:

And New York:

And my hometown, Cincinnati:

It scale shows just how difficult the clean-up efforts will be.

Link via notcot.org

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