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<br /> <br />A World at Risk: Major Rapid-Onset Natural Disasters <br /> <br />..'..., <br /> <br /> <br />. ....~ ::,:: . . <br />~'''', . <br />;,(" <br /> <br />,>;.,' <br /> <br />...':...~y{:C~;:~~~~t <br /> <br />'.' <br /> <br /> <br />.... .' <br /> <br />"';::'~::~;~~~;;""'~)~\":'\~:.:.:::.:.~:: ..)~':. <br />@:;..:....'.. //Jf!!!J;"~ ,~...' .....:.:.... """'. ~.::.::.:":"':... ....:.::~q:, <br />..::.>.:.- ;:p~..) . .. ':~~.;F:""':''- ';. '~..... .Y" <br />'. ~.J> ~....... ~ .... <br />o'~:::~ ,"-'- b . :::. ...:)>:.",... .::.... . \:;:;. <br />fJT ::.~~";" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />:~.;.' <br />.::i!!-~~":: <br /> <br />. LANDSLIDES <br />. TSUNAMIS <br />. WINDSTORMS <br />. FLOODS <br /> <br />. EARTHQUAKES <br />. FIRES <br />. VOLCANOES <br /> <br />Nearly every nation of the wurld is at risk from rapid-onset natural hazards. WhCll <br />these events occur amid vulnerable populations, catastrophes can result. Represented <br />here are the locatiuns of many uf history's majur catastrophic events. <br /> <br />SOURCE: (a) World Map of Narural Hazards. 1978. Munch~ner Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft <br />(Munich Re). Munich, West Germany. (b) Tsunamis in the Pacific Basin, 1900-1983 (map). 1984. <br />National Geophysical Data Center and World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics. University of <br />ColoradolNOAA. Boulder, Colorado. <br /> <br />::: <br /> <br />PAM REZNICK <br /> <br />