Potential Disaster (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Potential Disaster

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Potential quake zone. Solid red line indicates an area of about 24,000 square miles that could move during a subduction-zone earthquake, affecting 140 million people or more. The dashed line represents a scenario in which the slip might take place along a separate fault.

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Chris Small/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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