It's an avalanche-prone area that, for us, is deemed safe by DOC rangers only minutes before we set out from the hut in the morning.
If you live in a hurricane-prone area of the United States it is just possible that the size of your next insurance bill will be affected by what is found in some holes in the mud in Louisiana.
Flight 447 was passing through an area prone to volatile and dangerous weather known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone when it went down.
In Monday's notice, the agency said there had been "numerous indications" that the 20-year-old Silvertip pipeline had been installed in an area prone to seasonal flooding and erosion.
The area is prone to changes in winds and local currents, and ships can quickly become trapped, sometimes for weeks, when the concentration of pack ice increases.
The case spotlights the tricky world of donor intent, an area that is prone to fights over the initial objectives of a donor, sometimes decades later, between benefactors and their heirs and the institutions they believe have strayed away from the purpose.
Malaysia, for its part, is prone to unprovoked bouts of marine research in the area.
Japan is prone to large earthquakes, but none were reported in the area in the morning.
And the problem is compounded if the airport served by a regional carrier is already prone to delays, such as those in the New York City area.
In the area of renewable and distributed energy resources, which are prone to extreme variability, members can leverage predictive and optimization technologies, increasing the accuracy of their forecasts to balance the supply and demand of electricity and take measures that ensure system reliability.
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Players were less prone to shirt-pulling at corners and free kicks, diving in the area and dissent, it reported.
But an Italian study, published in the March issue of Nature Neuroscience, found that children prone to a particular type of epilepsy nearly all had problems in one particular area of the brain.
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