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  Great Hurricane of 1780

  The Great Hurricane of 1780 is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time. About 22,000 people died when the storm pounded Barbados, Martinique, and Sint Eustatius in the Lesser ... > more
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  Surface runoff

  Surface runoff is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle. Runoff that occurs on surfaces before reaching a channel ... > more
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  Nuclear power plant

  A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. Nuclear power plants are base load stations, which work best when the power output is ... > more
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  Cyclone Mala

  Cyclone Mala, also known as Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Mala, was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2006 North Indian cyclone ... > more
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  Hydroelectricity

  Hydroelectricity is electricity obtained from hydropower. Most hydroelectric power comes from the potential energy of dammed water driving a water turbine and generator. Less common variations make ... > more
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  Urban planning

  Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities. In the nineteenth ... > more
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  Hydrogeology

  Hydrogeology is the part of hydrology that deals with the distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth's crust (commonly in ... > more
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  Methyl tert-butyl ether

  MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 ... > more
• Earthquakes
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  Hayward Fault Zone

  The Hayward Fault Zone is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is parallel to and east of its more famous (and much longer) sister fault, the San Andreas ... > more
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  Arsenic

  Arsenic is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol As and atomic number 33. This is a notoriously poisonous metalloid that has three allotropic forms; yellow, black and grey. ... > more

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