However, the center also said that "earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within" about 62 miles (100 km) of the epicenter.
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The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
Morinda citrifolia is a small, hardy tree that grows in sandy areas along tropical coasts (French Polynesia and Hawaii).
And so that's always a good way to help, is to come down and provide support to the communities along the coasts.
The jellyfish spawn along the coasts of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea (see map in article) and some drift towards Japan.
Even less remembered are the Portuguese pilots who steered Spanish ships along both coasts of the continent in the sixteenth century, probing upriver to Bangor, Maine, and all the way to Oregon.
Researchers in the US have recently started clinical trials to see if a gel made from a type of red seaweed found along the coasts of Nova Scotia and Chile to see if it protects against HIV.
If climate change continues unabated, the resulting sea level rises will force cities and states all along the coasts to divert parts of their already strained budgets into billions of dollars worth of infrastructure improvements to prevent flooding.
The Department of the Interior figures that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and untapped parcels along both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico hold, all told, maybe 34 billion barrels of oil and 72 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Taking the rail idea a step further and looking to further solve the differential equation, Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) is converting a former Virginia refinery to offload crude railcars and then shift their cargoes to ships to move crude oil along the coasts of the United States, profiting from price differentials.
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The risk of loss of lives and economic disaster in the southern Mediterranean is high due to strong population density along its coasts: around 150 million people concentrated in 46, 000 kms of coastline, 110 million of them living in cities bordering the sea and some 200 million tourists visiting the area every year.
According to the RSPB, around 650 Cetti's warblers are thought to be resident in the UK, with the majority nesting along the south coasts of England and Wales.
Reports so far suggest that the jellyfish are appearing in much the same way as 2004, with millions of harmless moon jellyfish swarming along the west coasts of Wales, Scotland, and England.
Seamless covers about 12, 000 restaurants in 40 cities, mostly on the East and West Coasts, along with Houston and Austin, Texas, and overseas in London.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projected that winds will continue through Saturday to push oil on the surface of the Gulf toward barrier islands along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts.
Those scenarios include development in both federal and state offshore areas, including along Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts as well as in Great Lakes and Hawaiian waters, the agency says.
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Some of these will be in the south, including a new highway along the Gulf coast and feeder roads to both coasts.
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