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Tsunami risk for Bay of Bengal

T.V. Padma
6 September 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

Layers of sediment in
the Bay of Bengal
(orange is the thickest)

Millions of people living on the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal face the risk of giant, tsunami-triggering earthquakes, warns a report.
The massive tsunami-generating earthquake that occurred off the Indonesian coast on 26 December 2004, surprised many geologists, and they now [...]

The Earth Fights Back

Climate Crisis Coalition
The Earth Fights Back
By Bill McGuire, The Guardian Unlimited, August 7, 2007
“Looking back to other periods in our planet’s history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected. The solid earth also became restless, with an increase [...]