To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard proportional economic loss.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global landslide hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global drought hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global landslide hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global drought mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global cyclone mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a means of assessing global volcano mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global cyclone hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global cyclone hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global earthquake mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global flood mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global drought hazard.

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of income, poverty, education, and housing age, for Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for metropolitan statistical areas at a finer resolution than is available in the 30 arc-second grids used for the United States as a whole.