"Front-Synchronization"
The 169 time-series have been shifted to the location of the front (at time 0), as given by the linear model of the epidemic front.


"Township order" is from southwest to northeast. Again, size of dot indicates number of cases reported by a town. The towns in the southwest, which were the first to report, thus appear at the bottom in this plot: the front hits them early in their time series, and they spend proportionally more of their time in the "post front" stage, and inform us the most about the endemic phase (the right tails).