The other side of the coin is “land emergence” or the gaining of dry land. How does this happen? Ask a geologist. Continental masses rise up, coral islands and reefs accrete (gain) sand and expand their shores, oceanic volcanoes grow and poke their heads above the waters and river deltas build up through deposition…
Tsunami waves generated by the powerful earthquake that jolted the Noto Peninsula and its vicinity in central Japan on New Year's Day swept across some 190 hectares of land in three municipalities, the government says