Bahrain

Kuwait

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Southwest Asia and North Africa

A map highlights the Gulf Cooperation Council (G C C) members such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, and U A E in dark red.

Member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an organization founded in 1981 to promote economic, political, and military coordination among its members

Countries

Gulf Cooperation Council

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Members

Alaska

Hawaii

British Columbia

Nevada

California

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A world map of earthquake activity from 2000 to 2019. Circles of varying sizes represent earthquake magnitudes, with larger circles for higher magnitudes. Significant activity is noted in Colombia, Iran, Turkey, Tanzania, and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Time series data showing locations and Richter scale magnitudes of significant earthquakes from 1800 BCE to 2019. Use timeline controls at bottom of the map to display data by time period.

Earthquakes

World

NOAA

Richter scale magnitude

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (I T C Z) in July, marked by a dashed line. The I T C Z runs near the equator, curves northward over the Atlantic Ocean, crosses Africa, through the Indian Ocean, and over Southeast Asia and the western Pacific Ocean.

Location of the Intertropical Convergence Zone during July

Intertropical Convergence Zone, July

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Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Alberta

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Québec

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

A map shows areas of insolation (incoming solar radiation) across the world, categorized by watts per square meter.

Average annual levels of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface

Insolation

The map illustrates global insolation, showing variations in incoming solar radiation from the tropics to the polar regions. In the Northern Hemisphere, high insolation (220 to 280 plus watts per square meter), highlighted as dark green to dark red spans from northwestern Mexico through southern Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, across the Atlantic to North Africa and Southwest Asia, with peaks in the eastern Sahara and Arabian Peninsula. In the Southern Hemisphere, high insolation areas stretch from East Africa to South Africa and across the Indian Ocean to most of Australia, with other high insolation zones in the Central Pacific and south-central South America. Middle insolation values (120 to 219 watts per square meter), highlighted as light blue to green, are found between 50 degrees north and 50 degrees south latitude, excluding high insolation regions. Low insolation areas (80 to 119 watts per square meter), highlighted as blue to light blue, are located north of the 50-degree lines to the poles in North America, the North Atlantic, and Eurasia, and around the Southern Ocean in Antarctica. The lowest insolation values (less than 80 watts per square meter), highlighted as dark blue, are in the ocean east of northern Greenland.

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Members	Earthquakes									Display by:	Insolation
Value	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Intertropical Convergence Zone, July	240–259	220–239	200–219	180–199	160–179	140–159	120–139	100–119	80–99	Less than 80

	1	1									13.3%	34.1%	49.4%	36.1%	40.7%	37.0%	24.4%	42.3%	44.7%	2.23%

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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Members