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S/N/78. Discuss how recent scientific progress in understanding earthquakes might help reduce the hazards associated with such events

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2000
DATE:
2007
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The paper reviews scientific approaches to the causes of natural hazards identifying their categories and focusing on the mechanisms of the tectonic plate movement that results in earthquakes. Examples of earthquake predictions are analysed comparing them to tsunami forecasts and making conclusions about their role in reducing the hazards.

 

KEYWORDS: Hazards, earthquakes, tectonic,

 
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