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…The classic Maya culture started to decline in the 8th and 9th centuries A.D. Most of the cities of the central lowlands had been abandoned. Earthquakes, invasions by outsiders, famine, warfare, and drought have all been suggested as possible causes…

…similar, more modern technology. The resemblance between the physical geography and natural disasters of Atlantis, Crete and Thera are very profound. There was said to be many earthquakes on these islands. The story of Atlantis tells us that the island…

…The poisoning of the world's land, air, and water is the fastest-spreading disease of civilisation. It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth…

…There are 2 basic processes: tectonics which builds the earth and surface processes which tear it back down again. Tectonics include volcanoes and earthquakes, and tectonic processes are responsible for plate motions, mountains and so forth. Surface…

…it be something else is there? I do not think there are more than external nature, mental imagery and inherited prejudice. For instance, I saw news such as the Indian earthquake happened on October 8th of 2005, I initially saw the fact that the earthquake actually…

…equates to a natural disaster. They are nothing else but extreme environmental events that impact human activities. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are the most frequents threats, as well as flooding, tornadoes, and droughts, which…

…include earthquakes, severe flooding, volcanoes and extreme wind conditions. Uniformitarianism is the belief in slow evolution and slow change in geological Earth events. This states that Earth can only change over a long period of time…

…to no-longer-passive, radical everyone. Individuals on the Net initiate and control content to suit themselves and those they can interest. (This makes governments nervous.) The Net is an antidote to broadcast news. The news tells you about a shocking earthquake…

…. Convection in asthenosphere causes the plates to shift and move about. We can tell where the plates are or have been because volcanoes and earthquakes have their own boundaries when the are active. Tectonic plates have three relationships with each other…

…on the Earth’s crust, on a fault line, will most likely cause earthquakes. After hearing all of these negative effects of building this dam I was convinced that it was bad. If building the world’s largest dam meant that several thousand people would have to move…