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The Harvard Centre for Geographic Analysis and Harvard Fairbank Centre for East Asian Research have established a China Earthquake Geospatial Research Portal. This website contains maps, GIS data and GIS analysis aimed at assist ongoing research on the recent earthquakes in China.

CEGRP is collecting and distributing GIS layers and related information for interactive examination of the earthquake region. The site hosts a map server for the sharing and visualisation of datasets relevant to the earthquake and its aftereffects.

Users are encouraged to explore and publish datasets online. Two GIS vector layers are available for download, the first showing the earthquake epicentres and aftershocks, and the second illustrating the impact zones.

Other information posted on the site includes photos and narrative documentation of specific sites, links to agencies conducting GIS analysis of the earthquake and historical and demographic information related to the earthquake region. The site also collects news articles published in the New York Times, BBC News and aid organisation, Relief Web.

CEGRP was developed by Lex Berman, project manager and lead developer of the China Historical GIS Project at the Harvard Centre for Geographic Analysis in partnership with Bao Shuming, China Data Centre, University of Michigan, and Lin Hui, Institute for Space Earth and Information Science.

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