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Tsunami threat grows as sea levels rise

Geoff Riley

24th August 2018

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Thank you to David Kilham for posting this on the Geography Teachers Facebook Group. "Tsunami hazards are increasing with sea level rise. The example here is reclaimed land in Macau, an area with multi-billion dollar gambling/leisure complexes, so perhaps useful for CUE. Also, a good chance to discuss the logarithmic magnitude scale, where a 0.3 decrease in tsunami threshold equates to earthquake shaking around half as small."

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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