In recent years finance funding has been occurring regularly in coastal towns all around the world monsoons storms cyclamens and hurricanes coast thousands of deaths and forced displacement of millions of people. Why in some cities more at risk than others what forces of nature lead to these disasters and is Global Warming the primary cause. After Hurricane Sandy devastated new. York in two thousand and twelve scientists around the world intensified their efforts to identify the causes of these disasters. On october the twenty ninth two thousand and twelve Hurricane Sandy moved steadily closer to the east coast of the United States threatening new york city. Costs were alarming water levels were predicted to rise by five metres as a safety measure or public spaces subways tunnels and bridges were close to the public. The man declared a state of emergency the city of new york evacuated three hundred seventy five thousand People Living in flood of all areas. Back in the two thousand and
Miles above the epicenter in oakland. Thats a good thing. Translato i cant imagine it was more than four seconds. We learned it was kind of underneath us. Reporter the quake sort of shook them awake, the reactions puzzle from the dogs. At the 711 in oakland they kept their feet through it. We thought it was some kind of explosion or something. The or something would be 4. 0 in magnitude and more than a blip with after shocks on the equipment inside the Seismology Lab where dr. Birdman under played the event because the epicenter comes from known and worrisome section of the hayward fault. When we have an earthquake there is always statistically a somewhat greater chance of the larger quake within a week or so. That is a probability now of maybe 5 or a bigger one in the next week. Every 140 years or so the hayward fault generates a quake in the 7. 0 range. It has been 150 years since the last one. Such a quake would be much more dangerous and damaging than what we saw in 1989. Experts t
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Honour the victims of the grenfell fire. And in half an hour, newsbeat asks if its time for change to attitudes to the legalisation of cannabis good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Ten of thousands of People Living in the us state of texas have been ordered to leave their homes, as flooding, caused by Tropical Storm harvey, continues to cause devastation. Its expected up to 30,000 people may need temporary emergency shelters, with more than two and a half feet of rain fallen on the city of houston alone. Unconfirmed reports suggest up to five people may have drowned, but Officials Say they cant confirm figures until the flood waters recede. Thousands of people have had to be rescued, many plucked from rooftops by helicopter. 0ur correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in la grange, 100 miles west of houston in texas for us. Welcome to this Small Community la grange is about 100 miles west of houston. This is a microcosm here of the devastating, catastrophic flooding which is ravaging this
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