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The Coast Guard is the first line of defense against a massive tsunami. Will it also be an early victim?

A joint survey conducted by Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme or CDMP and Japan International Cooperation Agency or JICA back in 2009 revealed that at least 72000 buildings in Dhaka city would completely collapse and more than 135,000 buildings would be damaged if an earthquake of magnitude seven or more hit Dhaka.

They happen on what is called a subduction zone, a mega— thrust earthquake, and they can be many thousands kilometres beneath the surface. here we have a fault close to the surface, so in addition to this being a very magnitude earthquake, it was also very shallow, and that is why it was so destructive. i shallow, and that is why it was so destructive-— destructive. i was going to ask you about the depth, _ destructive. i was going to ask you about the depth, and _ destructive. i was going to ask you about the depth, and perhaps - destructive. i was going to ask you about the depth, and pe...

It’s a January night on the north Oregon coast. The sun has been down for several hours and it’s dark. A quarter moon hangs in the winter sky, with the

Could tectonic processes in the early Earth have contributed to the rise of oxygen?