Emergency officials in New Jersey said they were monitoring a coastal storm, expected to bring lashing rain, wind, snow and possibly coastal flooding to the region hit by super-storm Sandy in October.

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That quake also triggered a tsunami that toppled buildings, especially in the coastal Maule region.

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They updated him on a forecast coastal low that is anticipated to be in the Northeastern region probably on Wednesday.

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Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery.

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Trade and industry minister Odd Eriksen, petroleum and energy minister Odd Roger Enoksen and fisheries and coastal affairs minister Helga Pedersen all come from Northern Norway, a region geographically remote and in many ways culturally distinct from the more populous South.

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Export weakness in July may have continued into August, which contributed to the decline of the HSBC PMI, which has a higher weight than the official PMI for export-oriented companies in the coastal region, noted Zhiwei Zhang, an analyst for Nomura Securities in Hong Kong.

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According to Nicholas K. Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College in New York City, significant hurricanes have slammed into the region before.

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The firm has been extracting minerals from the region's coastal sand dunes for more than three decades, having set up a massive operation along the shore.

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Vermentino is also produced on Italy's mainland, in the coastal region of Maremma in Tuscany and further north in the Liguria region, where Vermentino takes on a decidedly minerally, sometimes almost stony, edge.

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