Last week's explosion in Beirut claimed over 200 lives, injured thousands, and caused billions of dollars worth of damage.

The damage proxy maps can be used to focus aid efforts toward the most damaged regions.

The port city suffered billions of dollars in damage in the wake of the explosion and, according to UNICEF, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless.

In the wake of the 2018 Palu earthquake, for example, NASA published a similar damage proxy map, which plotted the risk of landslides around the Indonesian city