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The slowly building threat of Cascadia – and the slow realisation it was there (book review)
If you asked the average person on the street which part of the USA was most threatened by earthquakes, most of them would probably say California. The San Andreas Fault is so embedded into the popular consciousness that it is … Continue reading
Natural disasters may not always hit hardest where you’d expect
For many natural hazards, the actual risk is not purely a function of frequency and magnitude: politics, regulation and psychology are also a large influence on the potential human impact. Continue reading
