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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100

Unexpected Elements

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The Wet Sediment and the Earthquake Hazard

At two thousand meters altitude, mexico city is far above sea level. Its bustling population of 22 million people are squeezed into a fifth of the area by mountains. Over millions of years, they have shed sediments into an ancient lake bed that now underlies all the construction. A lot of energy gets trapped in this layer which the city is built upon. There's big, strong shaking there.

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