Knowing how far inland a tsunami will penetrate should help the authorities to evacuate the right areas.
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And it's a landing craft, so it's designed to bring Marines from the ship onto the beach and go inland maybe a mile or two.
But Austin, the Brookings analyst, said economic revival also depends on doing more to make the region's 10, 000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline and many rivers and inland lakes a draw for tourists and for service companies that want a beautiful setting.
Those involved a customs post 200 kilometers inland manned by a very small team, designed to cause delay where France could not impose an outright ban on Sony.
About a quarter of jobs could be cut at a Telford Inland Revenue site, according to a trade union.
You hug the ridge of a huge inland cliff, looking out over a sea of moorland and trees towards the Scottish uplands.
Similar experiments were performed in Swindon, which was selected "because it is a reasonably large inland industrial city in the midst of a large rural area".
Finalists: Dan Egan of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for his exhaustive examination of the struggle to keep Asian carp and other invasive species from reaching the Great Lakes and ultimately all of the nation's inland waters, a story enhanced by animated graphics, and Tony Bartelme of The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
In Mougins, a few miles inland from Cannes, I opened the door to a stunning hotel room that overlooked a valley and the grey-green maquis of Provence.
The valley itself, about a 20-minute drive inland from the coast, is idyllic in a fruit-crate-picture sort of way, with gentle spruce- and fir-topped slopes, and vineyards contoured over swelling knolls.
In exchange for a view of Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie, residents were going to get contaminated acreage inland that looked out on a T.
Back then, in the Permian era, a vast inland sea covered much of west Texas and south-eastern New Mexico.
McCain, the frozen food company, has a factory inland of Knipe Point.
The walls block wetlands and beaches from expanding inland, so with a wall on one side and encroaching water on the other, in the end, the wetlands disappear.
The accident forced the closure of a 16-mile stretch of the lower Mississippi, a major inland corridor for vessels carrying oil, Midwest grains, goods and other vital commerce.
But here, inland, there is a particular big issue going on at this present moment in time, about damming the Rio Grande in Southern Spain, to provide more water for the resources on the coast.
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"He travelled on the ferry boat from the mainland over to that little inland island posing as a police officer, saying he was there to do research in connection with the bomb blasts, " NRK journalist Ole Torp told the BBC.
But, again, from a storm that I think -- a lot of folks on the coastal areas also showed that inland the heavy rains produced quite a bit of damages and are continuing to produce damages.
Recently, I listened to around fifty of the cantatas during a thousand-mile drive in inland Australia, and, far from getting too much of a good thing, I found myself regularly hitting the repeat button.
When an ISP decides to manage its network in a certain way it has implications for everyone - the Inland Revenue seems to have fallen foul of a feature that it did not have any control over and could not anticipate.
Sadid knew a spot further inland that was virtually guaranteed to be teeming with crocodiles.
Their fight is for a rainforest stretching inland from the coast of the Solomon Sea.
Wadebridge in Cornwall, a few miles inland from the coast, saw the biggest rise in average house prices.
Many of them never left: Forbes and his wife Elizabeth are buried in the churchyard a few miles inland at Sancreed.
However, if nothing but a lion or elephant will do, then venture a few hours inland to the Selous Game Reserve.
Traffic then was so congested that it took up to 19 hours to drive inland to Columbia, usually a two-hour trip.
Some way inland from the shore is a little Himba encampment.
However, Sandy is making a left turn inland, and the storm is now seen as stretching all the way to the Great Lakes.
Rural and inland voters may have felt a sense of cultural and even economic affinity with the less wealthy and ostentatiously western-looking Ennahda candidates.
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