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Of all the vendors selling on the streets in Korea, the most well-known are those that sell delicious street food! You can easily spot them on streets from big cities to small countryside towns.

If you have visited Korea you were probably amazed at the variety, the price, and, above all, the amazing tastes. Korea is a street food heaven and street food is regarded as a part of popular culture in Korea.

It is not clear when exactly street food started to appear in Korea, but the concept of selling food on the street is quite old. Korean street vendors, like most street vendors over the world, began selling a living around traditional markets.

After the Korean War (1950-1953), street food vendors provided affordable meals for people unable to put food on the table. Then, street food expanded into the Cheonggyecheon stream and Jongno districts, where today locals and tourists can find famous street food alleys. Overall it can be said that street food is regarded as a significant part of the Korean food culture.

So, let's discover the best and must-eat Korean street food that will delight your taste buds!

Like a Meal (Meal-sized Street Food)

Did you think street food is only about tasty snacks between meals? No way! Please do not underestimate the versatility of street food. Some street food is just perfect for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as it is quite sufficient for one meal.

Here are a few street food dishes that are commonly served as meals.

1. 떡볶이 (Tteokbokki: Spicy Stir-fried Rice Cakes)

Many people are familiar with the dish tteokbokki, especially those interested in Korean culture or who watch Korean movies or dramas. These spicy rice cakes mixed with various ingredients are always ranked in the top 5 of Koreans' most loved street food.

Have you already tried the classic tteokbokki? Well, now you can now try fusion tteokbokki, a delicious twist on the classic such as Carbonara tteokbokki, Curry tteokbokki, and Bacon tteokbokki on the street. Does it sound a bit off beat? Well, these creative dishes will sparkle your taste buds and you will be pleasantly surprised at how well the flavors mesh together!

2. 순대 (Soondae: Korean Sausage)

Soondae is known as tteokbboki's best friend. Yes, it goes so well with tteokbokki. You can easily find street vendors even selling the combo tteoksoon (tteok from tteokbokki, soon from soondae).

Soondae dipping sauces are different depending on the region in Korea. When you order soondae at the street vendor in Seoul or Gyenggi province, salt is served for dipping. However, if you visit Busan, which is the second largest city in Korea, then they will offer you soondae with makjang (a sauce made from doenjang and gochujang).

3. 컵밥 (Cupbab: Rice in a Cup)

This is a bowl of rice served with toppings. The only difference is that the bowl is replaced with a cup. In other words, cupbab is rice topped with various toppings in a paper cup. So it's literally called cupbab since it's cup plus bap (rice Korean).

Students and those preparing for state exams often have for cupbab for a meal as it's cheap and tasty. Kimchi fried rice is usually the base and it is topped with extra ingredients such as ham, sausage, eggs, or tuna.

4. 만두 (Mandu: Korean Dumplings)

Mandu are Korean dumplings that are commonly filled with minced meat (usually pork), tofu, green onions, garlic, glass noodles. It's another famous street food that is eaten as a meal.

In Korea there are many different varieties of Mandu, but usually two types can be found on the street: meat dumpling and kimchi dumpling. You can go for one type or ask the vendor to put half of each in a takeaway box.

5. 닭강정 (Dakgangjeong: Sweet Crispy Korean Fried Chicken)

Dak means chicken in Korean, so yes, it's a stir-fried chicken marinated in sauce. There are various types depending on the sauce, but the most common dakgangjeong is the one with sweet chili sauce.

Some dakgangjeong street vendors are so popular that you have to wait hours to taste it and some people even come from other regions just to taste the dakganjeong sold at an specific street stall.

6. 어묵 (Eomuk: Korean Fish Cake)

Eomuk is a popular dish made with dough and powdered fish. Fish cakes are usually dipped in salty soy sauce seasoned with green onions and sesame oil. Depending on the size, skewers of fish cake cost 50 cents to 1 dollar, which is often the cheapest food on the street.

There are two types of fish cakes, folded and zigzagged, and a long fish cake. The taste and amount are similar, but the long fish cake has the advantage of maintaining a hot and bouncy texture for a longer time, and the folded and zigzagged fish cake is well simmered in broth and has a soy sauce taste.

7. 밥버거 (Bap Burger: Korean Rice Burger)

Again, bap means cooked rice, and burger is burger, as you know. This dish is a burger with buns of compressed rice, which hold the meat and veggies together. Bap burger is a popular Korean-style street food known for being very tasty with an affordable price. It is especially popular with students looking for a low-priced meal.

Koreans like to fill it with kimchi, tuna, spicy pork or chicken with various vegetables between the rice buns, which are then toasted and scorched to give them a smokey flavor and crunchy texture.

8. 튀김 (Twigim: Korean Deep Fries)

Twigim in Korean refers to deep-fried dishes. The outer part of the batter is called frying clothes (튀김 옷), and starch powder, bread crumbs, and flour are mainly used.

In general, fried food is sold by tteokbokki and soondae street vendors. The type of fried food depends on the main ingredient. Fried squid (오징어 튀김), fried vegetables (야채 튀김), fried sweet potatoes (고구마 튀김), and fried seaweed noodle rolls (김말이) are some examples.

9. 빈대떡 (Bindaetteok: Mung Bean Pancakes)

This is a dish of ground mung beans mixed with vegetables or meat and fried in oil. It is greasy and has a savory taste, so it is also regarded as one of the best foods to eat when drinking alcohol.

In the past, it was expensive for commoners to eat meat. They therefore used meat scraps and fat to flavor their food. Since the fat from the meat makes the pancake tastier, along with the nutty taste of the mung beans, the pancakes became a very popular Korean dish. Also, it's very easy to make outdoors, so bindaetteok can be seen in many open air markets.

10. 길거리토스트 (Gilgeori Toast: Korean Street Toast)

Gilgeori toast, which means street toast in Korean, is a savory and sweetened egg sandwich sold by street food vendors. For many Koreans, gilgeori toast is a nostalgic street food, reminiscent of childhood. It is fast, easy, and affordable and eaten for breakfast or lunch.

Korean street toast is made by sprinkling ketchup and sugar on egg pancakes mixed with carrots. And despite some foreign visitors declaring "It's a sandwich, not a toast!", it is most definitely a toast!

Korean Street Food Snacks

So, you are not full up with the main meal you tasted on the street. Don't worry, you will be hungry again and then you'll be looking out for something to munch on once you've spent time visiting all the attractions.

11. 꽈배기(Kkwabaegi: Twisted Korean Doughnuts)

Kkwabaegi is a sweet snack that is fluffy, spongy, and twisted. It is made with glutinous rice flour and melted butter. The dough is deep-fried in oil and tossed in sugar and cinnamon powder.

Like most fried breads, it tastes a lot better when it's just come out of the oil. If you are too full to eat it right away, then take it home for later. But please remember to heat it up in a microwave or oven!

12. 닭꼬치 (Ddakkochi: Korean Chicken Skewers)

Ddakkochi is a popular grilled chicken snack on a stick. It is usually coated with an addictive sweet and spicy sauce. However, it sometimes comes simply seasoned with salt and no sauce. There are vendors that also put mustard sauce or mayonnaise over ddakkochi.

Some street vendor sell very spicy chicken skewers called bomb-flavored chicken skewers, which will test your tolerance of spicy food. The level of spice could have your eyes watering within seconds! If you fancy the challenge, go for bomb-flavored!

13. 감자 핫도그 (Gamja-Hotdog: Korean-style French Fries Corn Dog)

This is a fun Korean street food: a hot dog on a stick covered with French fries! Gamja means potatoes in Korean so its name, gamja-hotdog, pretty much covers it.

Many foreigners who have visited Korea recommend gamja-hotdog as the must-try Korean street food. They can be filled with either sausage or cheese and rolled in sugar or covered with a sauce such as ketchup and mayonnaise. It depends on your taste.

14. 호떡 (Hotteok: Korean Sweet Pancakes)

Hotteok is a dessert snack that is filled with a sweet syrup made from cinnamon, brown sugar, and peanuts. Nowadays, you can enjoy various types of hotteok as the original filling can be replaced with ice cream or cheese.

For those who like to go for a more savory snack, you could find Japchae hottoek, which is filled with grass noodles mixed with soy sauce seasoning, veggies, and minced meat.

For more Korean sweet treats, check out our article on the most popular Korean desserts and sweets.

15. 계란빵 (Gyeran-Ppang: Egg Bread)

Gyeran mean eggs in Korean and ppang means bread. Egg bread sounds as simple as the recipe, but the taste is anything but, as yet you can taste both sweet and savory at once.

The dough is made with mixing flour, baking powder, milk, eggs, butter, sugar, and salt. Then, it is put in the Gyeran-ppang machine and a whole egg is cracked onto the bread batter. It is cooked until golden brown. This snack is particularly popular during winter as it is warm and steamy.

16. 찐빵 (Jjinppang: Korean Steamed Buns)

Jjinbbang was first introduced to the Korean peninsula around 250 years ago. Since then, it has been growing in popularity and become one of Koreans' favorite snacks. It is typically filled with sweetened red bean paste, but also with vegetables and different types of meat.

Steaming jjinppang is an ideal snack in the cold winter months as you grab it with your bare hands, warming up your frosty fingers. Of course, the warm and sweetened filling will help your body warm and relax too.

17. 국화빵 (Gukhwa-Ppang: Chrysanthemum Bread)

Bread with chrysanthemum? It sounds a bit awkward, but don't worry! Gukhwa-ppang does not have any flower inside at all! It is the bread baked in a chrysanthemum-shaped mold using dough and red bean paste.

It is called chrysanthemum because the pattern on the bread resembles that flower. Originally, only red beans were added, but now a greater variety of ingredients are used such as honey, peanuts, and walnuts.

18. 붕어빵 (Bungeo-Ppang: Korean Fish Shaped Pastry)

Bungeo-ppang is very similar to gukhwa-ppang. While gukhwa-ppang is put in a chrysanthemum-shaped mold, bungeo-ppang is fish shaped. There is one more thing in terms of difference between them: the texture. Bungeo-ppang is crispier than gukhwa-ppang, which has a thicker and softer dough.

It is also regarded as a winter snack in Korea, so it can be hard to find a street vendor selling bungeo-ppang. However, you can also enjoy a variation of bungeo-ppang in the heat of summer. There is a vanilla ice-cream version of bungeo-ppang called bungeo samanco (붕어 싸만코), which you can find at any convenience store 24/7.

19. 구운 가래떡 (Guwun Garaetteok: Korean Grilled Bar Rice Cake)

Garaetteok is one of the simplest types of rice cake, so the quality of rice determines the taste. Garae rice cake is grilled on briquettes or charcoal and it becomes crisp on the outside and remains soft on the inside. You can enjoy it with honey, syrup, or sugar.

20. 군고구마 (Gun Goguma: Roasted Sweet Potatoes)

There are many countries that use roasted sweet potatoes as a meal or snack. However, this Korean street snack is different from others due to a special cooking machine: the Drum Can. You can see many roasted sweet potato stands on the street using metal drum cans.

Some sellers offer gun goguma with honey and butter, which makes them taste incredible!

21. 핫바 (Hot Bar)

Hot bar is deep-fried fish paste served on a stick or skewer. For more variety in flavors, other ingredients are added, including cheese, rice cake, perilla leaf, chili, seaweed, sausage, or ham.

When you order a hot bar from a street vendor, it is usually made on the spot, as the mixed paste is fried with ground white fish, flour, eggs, and vegetables. If you wish to try other ingredients, the seller will put them inside the paste for you. When you take a bite of a freshly fried and steaming hot bar, you will feel on top of the world!

22. 달고나 (Dalgona: Korean Sponge Candy)

Dalgona resembles honeycomb toffee candy. It's made by melting sugar with a little baking soda. Depending on the region, it is sometimes called ppopgi (뽑기).

You can often see sellers making different patterns on the candy such as a star, heart, or fish before it hardens completely. Some vendors will even play a small game where you get a free candy if you can eat the candy around the pattern without cracking it.

23. 소떡소떡 (Sotteok Sotteok: Korean Hotdog and Rice Cake Skewers)

The name sotteok sotteok comes from how it is made. So (소) is from sausage, and tteok (떡) from Korean rice cake. A sausage and rice cake are put on a stick in turns and then it is fried or grilled. Then it is coated with ketchup, mustard, or red pepper paste-based spices.

24. 뻥튀기 (Bbeongtwigi: Korean Puffed Rice)

Bbeongtwigi is a snack that is popular for men and women of all ages in Korea. It's made of puffed rice. If you put rice or any other grain inside a puffing machine, a big piece of bbeongtwigi comes out with a big "bbeong" sound! The name bbeongtwigi comes from twigi, to puff, and the sound bbeong.

It is very crispy and then becomes a little sticky in your mouth. Vendor trucks often moves between towns selling the puffed rice and grains.

25. 회오리 감자 (Hweori Gamja: Tonado potatoes)

The last on our list is hwori gamja, also known as tornado potato or spiral potato. A whole potato is cut into a spiral on a machine, then fried on a skewer and brushed with various seasonings like onion or cheese. Then there is hweori gamja, which has a sausage in the middle.

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Of all the vendors selling on the streets in Korea, the most well-known are those that sell delicious street food! You can easily spot them on streets from big cities to small countryside towns. If you have visited Korea you were probably amazed at the variety, the price, and, above all, the amazing tastes.

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According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation -- responsible for protecting New York State's wild animal and plant populations -- native New York animals include the bald eagle, black bear, blue jay, bob cat, eastern chipmunk, gray squirrel, Indiana bat, mute swan, osprey, otter, raccoon, red fox, timber rattlesnake and white-tailed deer.

New York State Animals

Each of the states within the US has an official state animal and an official state bird that represent the state.

The official New York state animal is the beaver. The beaver was name the New York state animal in 1975. It was chosen because of the importance that beavers held for early settlers in the area; fur trade and traders settled in the Albany area in the 1600s and established New York as one of the pivotal settlements in America's early history.

The official New York state bird is the Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialis). The official state freshwater fish is the brook trout and the saltwater counterpart is the striped bass. The state reptile is the snapping turtle and the state insect is the nine-spotted ladybug.

Each of these state animals are native to the area and play an important part in the state's history, culture and environments.

New York State Mammals

Mammals are warm-blooded animals -- meaning they do not rely on an outside source for heat -- with fur. These animals are also capable of giving birth to offspring. Some mammals are carnivorous: black bear, long-tailed weasel, Canada lynx, red fox and river otter.

Other mammals are herbivorous: whitetail deer, moose and beaver. New York has two aerial mammals - little brown bat and Indiana bat - and marine mammals in the Atlantic Ocean near New York's shoreline. New York's marine mammals include sperm whales, blue whales and humpback whales.

The Allegheny wood rat is the only endangered land mammal in New York.

Birds

New York's bird species include sea birds and arboreal birds. Arboreal birds - species that usually nest in forests - in New York include the American woodcock, red-headed woodpeckers, sedge wren, and whip-poor-will. Among New York's freshwater wetlands birds are the great blue heron, double-breasted cormorant, and the Canada goose, while the Empire State's seabird population features least terns, seaside sparrows and piping plovers.

The state's carnivorous birds of prey species include the golden eagle, osprey and peregrine falcon. According to the New York State Ornithological Association, New York has more than 467 recorded bird species, as of 2011.

Amphibians and Reptiles

Amphibians and reptiles are two cold-blooded animal classes that depend on oxygen to breathe. These animals rely on an outside source to heat their bodies; the outside source is usually the sun or locations with warm temperatures.

Both amphibians and reptiles lay eggs. However, reptiles have thick, scaly skin and toe claws, while amphibians have moist, glandular skin and no claws on their toes. New York's amphibian species include the eastern tiger salamander, northern cricket frog, bullfrog and eastern hellbender - New York's largest amphibian at nearly 3 feet long.

Most of New York's reptiles are turtles - Atlantic Ridley sea turtle and eastern mud turtle - or snakes - timber rattlesnake, common garter snake and copperhead.

Freshwater Fish

New York's freshwater fish live in the state's lakes - Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes - and rivers - Hudson River, St. Lawrence River and Susquehanna River. All fish are cold-blooded and have gills to breath in their aquatic environment.

New York's fish species include:

Most of New York's endangered animal species are fish, which may be attributed to overfishing and loss of habitat. Some of New York's endangered fish species are the pugnose shiner, round whitefish, bluebreast darter and deepwater sculpin.

About the Author

Skip Davis has been writing professionally since 2005. His work has appeared in "Southern Literary Magazine," on various websites and in graphic panels at the Jackson Zoological Park in Jackson, Miss. Currently living in Southern California, Davis received his Bachelor of Arts in theater at Belhaven College.

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According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, native New York animals include the bald eagle, black bear, blue jay, bob cat, eastern chipmunk, gray squirrel, Indiana bat, mute swan, osprey, otter, raccoon, red fox, timber rattlesnake and white-tailed deer.

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A " raging freak of nature " is how National Geographic described Hurricane Sandy when it hit land in fall 2012.

From beginning to end, Hurricane Sandy's progression caused deadly flooding, mudslides, and destructive winds from the Caribbean to the U.S. East Coast. An unusual combination of hurricane conditions and cold fronts made Sandy particularly potent. In the nine days that Sandy raged, it killed 70 people in the Caribbean and almost 150 people in the U.S.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates Sandy caused at least $70 billion in damages, making it among the costliest storms in U.S. history.

Though Sandy is often described as an anomaly, for many it was a call to action. The disaster showed how vulnerable wider areas of the United States are to extreme weather events, particularly in a time when scientists warn that climate change is threatening sea-level rise and hotter temperatures. Since the storm, affected regions have rethought their disaster plans to try and increase their preparedness.

How did Sandy form?

On October 22, 2012, a tropical depression formed off the northeast coast of Nicaragua in the Caribbean Sea. Two days later, it strengthened and officially became a Category 1 hurricane as it moved northeast. Hurricane Sandy passed over Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

(What are hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons?)

It pummeled Haiti with rain, setting off a torrent of mudslides that killed at least 50 people. By October 26, it had passed over Puerto Rico and Cuba, damaging the historic city of Santiago de Cuba.

Over the next few days, Hurricane Sandy continued north. It weakened to a tropical depression once reaching the Bahamas on October 27, but then it quickly restrengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. NOAA reports that this reformed structure was unusual and was spurred by warm waters. The tempest became huge, with a radius that stretched 100 miles.

The wide-reaching storm progressed up the U.S. East Coast. It stayed several hundred miles offshore when passing the Carolinas, but it still pushed large waves and massive amounts of rain ashore. Roads were washed away in the Outer Banks.

Sandy moved past Delaware and New Jersey, unleashing more havoc as it collided with a cold front heading east toward the Atlantic. A separate high-pressure storm to the north of Sandy prevented it from moving away from shore, effectively trapping the now combined storm systems along the coast. Sandy's winds now extended 1,000 miles along the coast.

Because it became a hybrid of two storm systems and grew to be so immense, the press dubbed Sandy a Frankenstorm at the time.

A full moon added to the deadly storm surge that resulted, which increased the tide pushed ashore by a foot.

As the tropical storm system mixed with cooler air, it lost its hurricane structure but retained its intense winds. It was ultimately dubbed a superstorm, an unofficial designation given to large storms that don't easily fit into a single classification.

As the superstorm hit the coasts of New Jersey and New York, it packed a wallop. Parts of New York City near lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island flooded, temporarily paralyzing the city's subway system. As it progressed Sandy dropped a deluge of snow in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

Over 8 million people lost power during the story, and outages were seen for days in some major cities, while outlying areas were without power for weeks. Power outages from Sandy were experienced as far west as Michigan.

On October 30, the storm began to weaken as it moved inland before finally dissipating the next day over Pennsylvania. Even as the remains of Sandy moved west of Pittsburgh, the tempest's immense size continued to push storm surges toward New York and cause additional flooding. At its maximum size the storm covered a quarter of the continental U.S.

Sandy's aftermath

Two years after Sandy, experts broke down why the storm was so deadly. All but one European weather model had predicted the storm would turn and travel out to sea instead of striking the U.S. Just before the storm hit, the National Hurricane Center put local weather offices in charge of issuing advisories. Many people chose not to evacuate.

Many homes along the East Coast were destroyed, with parts of the Jersey Shore and Staten Island particularly impacted. As long as five years after, some residents were still rebuilding, with many relocating to higher ground. Thousands of people were temporarily left homeless, and more than 20,000 households were displaced a year after the storm hit.

Though the storm itself wasn't as strong as other infamous hurricanes, a combination of weather factors and the fact that much of the region was unprepared for it contributed to high levels of damage.

Sandy is considered the fourth most expensive storm in U.S. history, and more than 600,000 housing units were destroyed in New Jersey and New York. The government of New York City estimates that $19 billion in damage was inflicted on the city alone. Five years after Sandy, more than a thousand New Jersey residents reported still being unable to return home.

A report published by the city of New York outlines where the region was vulnerable to a storm the size of Sandy. It found that while some infrastructure like flood walls was out-of-date, the city also did not have sufficient plans in place to deal with the disaster. Most businesses and homeowners in New York City did not have flood insurance, having never suspected a storm the size of Sandy could reach so far north.

As a result, Hurricane Sandy served as a wakeup call for many in the region.

In addition to providing state funding to help struggling people rebuild their homes, New York and New Jersey also invested in rebuilding their outdated infrastructure meant to prevent flooding. Even in 2019, some East Coast cities are still pushing for additional funding to rebuild dunes and barriers destroyed by Sandy.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the time that his state's infrastructure needed to be rethought, not just rebuilt. Climate experts predict that extreme weather events like Sandy will become more common as the planet warms, warning that leaders need to both prepare for a more uncertain world and work to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

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Superstorm Sandy was actually several storms wrapped together, which made it one of the most damaging hurricanes ever to make landfall in the U.S.

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In describing England, Shakespeare wrote of "this earth of majesty . . . this precious stone set in the silver sea." Pay a visit to the land of the Bard and you'll easily see what inspired him as he wrote. England's natural landscape is mainly flat, low-lying land - primarily dales, moors, plains and rolling hills - with key examples being the long, meandering River Thames and its floodplains, Cornwall's secluded Bodmin Moor and the large Salisbury Plain where Stonehenge rises mysteriously. But there are exceptions, and notable ones at that: the small mountain ranges that punctuate the northern border near Scotland, the chalky Cliffs of Dover and the Isle of Wight off the southern coast.

Scale the Highest Mountain Peak

A mountain is defined as 600 meters or higher (nearly 2,000 feet) in England. The highest peak is Scafell Pike at 3,209 feet in the Lake District in Cumbria located in the northwest part of the country. Thousands of people climb Scafell every year, and on a clear day there are views of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. The mountain is included in the National Three Peaks Challenge, an event to climb the tallest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales.

English Lakes of Peter Rabbit Fame

More famous than the mountain peak is the Lake District National Park at its base. Beatrix Potter, the writer and illustrator of children's books, grew up in the picturesque Lake District where the landscape inspired beloved characters in such works as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit." The long and narrow glacial lakes are a popular summer vacation destination for English families, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. The deepest lake in England is Wast Water and the longest body of water, at about 11 miles, is Windermere.

Cliffs of Dover

The best view of the White Cliffs of Dover is from a vessel on the English Channel crossing, approaching from France. The cliffs face east, displaying soft and pure limestone in a striking white chalky frontage measuring 350 feet high and extending eight miles up and down the Kentish coast. Visitors can park for a small fee and get a free walking map from the on-site facility, proceeding along the top ledge with caution, due to crumbling chunks falling into the sea.

The River Thames

From its unimpressive source at Thames Head in the Cotswolds Hills in Gloucestershire, the trickle becomes a river, slowly flowing east for 215 miles before emptying into the North Sea. The longest river contained within England cuts a course through Oxford, Windsor, Greenwich and London on its way to the sea. For centuries, the Thames was the primary passage for commerce and social purposes. As such, many palaces, prisons and churches were built near its shores. Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Palace of Westminster and Houses of Parliament are among these. Today the river is also used for recreation and traditional annual events. At Henley-on-Thames, the Royal Rowing Regatta takes place over five days in July. The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race takes place in early spring in southwest London.

Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge

Stonehenge has stood imposingly on the Salisbury Plain for about 5,000 years. One of the world's most recognized prehistoric sites, it almost seems the striking landmark of 100 or so strategically placed monoliths are part of English geography. Surrounding the landmark, Salisbury Plain covers 300 square miles with its distinguishing feature of alkaline grassland on a base of chalk and limestone, mainly devoid of trees.

Land's End and the Cornish Moors

Land's End is the very tip of Cornwall, the pointed, rocky peninsula jutting into the Celtic Sea where it joins the English Channel. Exposed masses of granite on open, hilly spaces appear as outcrops on the moors of England's southwestern peninsula. Known for its otherworldly look, the mystique of Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor and all the Cornish moors is enhanced when fog and misty rain creeps in across the low hills. Visitors to the moors often seek the ruins of Tintagel Castle, central to the legend of King Arthur's sword. More moors? Four hundred miles away, North York Moors National Park is one of England's largest windswept open spaces covered in low grass and blossoming in heather in warmer weather.

Offshore Islands

Off the tip of Land's End, the Isles of Scilly are a string of 140 islands, only five of which are inhabited. The Isle of Wight, England's largest island, is famous as a yachting and sailing destination where the forerunner of the America's Cup race was held in 1851 with Queen Victoria in attendance. As a tribute to the agelessness of landforms, two of the most popular beaches on the Isle of Wight are hot spots for finding fossils.

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Geographically, Florida is a fascinating place. The state boasts countless idyllic white sand beaches, incredible subtropical wilderness, swamps, mangrove islands and miles of breathtaking coastline. For Florida-bound travelers keen on exploring the state's main landforms, visits to national and state parks are a must.

Geography and Landforms in Florida

Florida's geography and landforms are unlike any other in the country. The Sunshine State has a diverse mix of marshes, springs, swamps, beaches, islands, rivers and lakes. Essentially, there are four main regions which are each home to specific landforms, flora and fauna. These are the upland (hilly area), the Everglades (swamp and wetland), the Florida Keys (an archipelago of over 1,500 islands) and the Gulf Coast (coastal plains).

Visit Florida's State and National Parks

The best way to get a feel for Florida's geography and landforms is to visit one of the state's many parks and natural areas. Of course, the Everglades is at the top of this list, along with nearby Big Cypress and the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

Everglades National Park protects over 1.5 million acres of wetland, much of which is an important habitat for many rare and endangered species including the Florida panther, the American crocodile and the manatee. It can be tough to know where to begin exploring in this vast tropical wilderness, but there are a few must-do activities: Be sure to explore Cape Sable and Florida Bay by boat and kayak through the Wilderness Waterway, a 100-mile trail through mangroves, rivers, lagoons and bays; don't miss Big Cypress, a giant freshwater swamp and park with plenty of activities to suit every traveler, from bird-watching to biking to canoeing. Finally, the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary protects over 10,000 acres of wetlands and old-growth bald-cypress swamp, and it's an amazing sight. For birdwatchers and flower fans, especially, this wild stretch of wetlands is worth a visit: Corkscrew Swamp is run by the National Audubon Society, and it's also one of the only places in the country where you can see a blooming ghost orchid.

Though there are over 170 state parks in Florida, there are a few that stand out: namely, Bahia Honda State Park, Big Lagoon State Park, Sebastian Inlet State Park and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. John Pennekamp is an extraordinary system of protected undersea coral; Sebastian Inlet is situated on a barrier island north of Vero Beach (and provides the perfect spot to kayak in the Indian River Lagoon); Big Lagoon State Park, next to picturesque Perdido Key, is home to both tidal salt marshes and scenic pine flat woods; and, Bahia Honda State Park is routinely recognized as the all-time best beach in the Florida Keys.

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The city of Venice spreads out over a series of 119 islands that are located in the Venetian Lagoon - a vast body of salt water separated from the Adriatic Sea by a long piece of land. This part of Italy was inhabited by a few Illyrian tribes and the Veneti that lived on stilt houses in the Lagoon and lived off fishing and extracting salt from the Lagoon.

Venezia was founded in 421. The Veneti, who had been expelled by the Ostrogoths and the Lombards, took refuge in these marshlands in the mouth of the River Po, forming the city of Venice.

The city's "privileged" site in the middle of a swamp gave it a great independence and made it very difficult for those that wanted to seize the land. In 810 Charlemagne's own son (Pepin of Italy and king of the Lombards) had to withdraw from the Lagoon after six months of siege.

During the sixth century Flavius Belisarius, the general of the Byzantine Empire conquered Venice. Under the protection of the Eastern Roman Empire, Venice became part of the Exarchate of Ravenna.

In 697, the wealthy families of Venice took advantage of the Exarchate's weakened position to place the first doge Anafestus Paulicius in power. The position of the doge was at first hereditary and lifelong. Later, after several power struggles between the city's patrician families, the doges were elected.

In 829, the relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist were stolen from Alexandria in Egypt and smuggled to Venice. San Marco would become the city's patron saint and the relics safeguarded in St Mark's Basilica.

A devastating fire destroyed the city centre in 976, including the Doge's Palace with all the archives of the city and the first church dedicated to San Marco.

Constantinople granted Venice trading privileges in the Eastern Roman Empire in return for helping the Byzantine Emperor resist the Norman incursions.

This fruitful relationship and trading allowances guaranteed Venice important commercial ties with other regions and countries. The Venetian ambassador had exclusive concessions with Byzantium and his diplomacy was characterized by his sagacity, flexibility and opportunism. An example of these privileges is that the Venetians kept on trading with the Muslim world, even when the Lateran councils had prohibited it.

Venice's power increased thanks to the commerce of the following materials: spices and silk from Constantinople and Alexandria, transporting slaves, wood, fish from Dalmatia and iron from the Alpes. One of their most successful businesses was buying slaves from the south of Russia to sell them in North Africa. Venice would also sell the slaves it would buy from Turkey and Alexandria in Europe.

Venice became an imperial power and established the Latin Empire as a consequence of the fourth crusade that took place between 1202 and 1204. The Venetian galley ships led by Enrico Dandolo captured and brutally sacked Constantinople. The Greek Empire was then divided up between the crusaders and Venice. Numerous commercial areas of Syria, Palestine, Crete and Cyprus were handed over to Venice. It was during this period that Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant reached China and wrote a book about his travels.

Once Venice controlled the Mediterranean, it turned its attention to the Atlantic, reaching Southampton, Bruges and London, where the Venetians established their colonies.

In 1284, Venice introduced gold ducats (coins) that were used as a trade coin in Europe for the next three centuries, along with Florence's Florin.

Political organization of the Republic of Venice: The Old Serenissima Republic of Venice

From the beginning, the Republic of Venice strove to ensure that the doge would never have complete power over the city. A form of Republican government was established in Venice that didn't exist in any other part of Italy. The patricians did not want to be governed by just anyone, especially when it didn't benefit their financial interests.

From 1148 onwards, the Venetians forced every doge to sign the "Doge's Promise", an agreement which he had to fulfil as soon as he was elected.

In 1177, the Great Council was introduced to diminish the influence of certain great families. The council was made up by selected members of the nobility. Years later it was followed by the Minor Council that consisted of six members that became the doge's advisers. And The Quarantia (The Council of the Forty) which was the Supreme Court.

These institutions were then merged by the doge with the creation of the Signoria of Venice in 1223. The Serenissima Signoria was the Republic of Venice's supreme body of government and guaranteed the continuity of the Republic, as is represented in the expression: "The Doge is dead, but not the Signoria".

In 1229, a senate, the Consiglio dei Pregadi, was formed. It consisted of 60 members that were elected by the Major Council. From this senate, Venice's foreign affairs were determined and the ambassadors elected.

A Council of Ten was established in 1310. This organization was similar to a secret state police. Throughout the years, it became very powerful and turned into the central political body in Venice.

"Collegios" were formed by various representative groups of Venice. These created an executive branch.

In fact, the doge had very little power and most of the decisions were made by the Major Council. The members of the Great Council of Venice were passed from father to son from 1297 onwards.

An oligarchy of two hundred families began to govern Venice.

Threatened by the power of the Duke of Milan, Venice began to conquer other parts of Italy during the first half of the fifteenth century.

In 1410, Venice controlled most of the region including Verona and Padua, reaching eventually Brescia and Bergamo. The Adriatic Sea became the "Venetian Sea" and the power of Venice extended to other countries like Cyprus.

The weakness of the Byzantine Empire allowed Venice to acquire control over Crete, Cyprus (in 1498) and Eubea.

During the fifteenth century, Venice was at the centre of the world's commerce and had the largest port in the world with over 200,000 inhabitants. The wealthiest families had beautiful palazzos built by artists like Veronese and Giorgione.

Venice had reached its maximum peak during this period.

Decline

If the sacking of Constantinople marked the date from which Venice grew and became an imperial power, then the city's long decline began when it lost Constantinople to Sultan Mehmet II in 1453. Another important factor that hit Venice hard was the exploration of the Americas in 1492 and Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India.

During this period, the Ottoman Empire conquered the Balkans and Venice's new territory was threatened. Finally, in 1570, the Venetians had to abandon Cyprus leaving it to the Turks. In the following years, Crete and other Venetian territories were also seized by the Ottomans. In 1573, the Republic of Venice signed a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire, which ended the Ottoman and Venetian war.

Thanks to the Holy League, allied with the Holy See and Spain, Venice tried to retrieve its lost territory and, even though it won the Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire, it was unable to reconquer any land.

In addition, Venice had confronted the Pope when expanding its territory in Italy which led to great tensions. At the time, the Pope had very powerful allies such as Louis XII of France, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and Ferdinand II of Aragon. But finally, Venice's diplomacy saved it from an important confrontation with the Pope.

Lastly, the Plague of 1629-31 wiped out a third of the population. Venice was so diminished that Naples tried to conquer it through the Bedmar conspiracy and the Habsburg fostered the Port of Trieste to weaken Venice even further.

The conflict for Venice

During the eighteenth century, Venice was a shadow of its former self. It tried to recover its lost influence by declaring war against Tunisia, but in May 1797, Napoleon conquered Venice. During the following years France and Austria fought for dominion over the city.

In 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte tried to take sides with Venice, but the city refused. Napoleon took revenge by putting an end to three centuries of independence. He sacked the Bucentaur (the doge's state barge), stealing all the gold and precious stones he found. The barge was then sailed to France where it was used as a galley for prisoners.

The Doge Ludovico Manin and the Great Council abdicated and a pro-French municipal government was put in place. Napoleon organized the Cisalpine Republic in Italy and became its president. A few years later, Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor of France and became King of the Kingdom of Italy.

By the Treaty of Campo Formio (12 October 1797), Venice came under the Austrian Empire.

Napoleon regained power over Venice from the Austrians in 1805 by the Treaty of Pressburg and it became part of the Kingdom of Italy. A year later, Napoleon placed his brother Joseph Bonaparte as head of Venice. As a result of being placed under French dominion, an intense Italian nationalist sentiment developed.

In 1814, Napoleon was defeated and once again the Serenissima was returned to Austria, under the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. Years later, Venice was detached from Lombardy that had opted for the unification of the Kingdom of Italy.

The nationalist sentiment spread quickly and secret societies formed that searched for ways of unifying Venice with the rest of Italy. Two of the most important societies were called Young Italy and the Carbonari.

Various uprisings were organized by these societies. However, the Austrian army defeated the revolutionaries in the Rieti Battle in 1821. Ignoring what had taken place during the Battle of Rieti, new insurrections took place in Piamonte, Turin, Modena and Parma on 11 March.

After the Battle of Rieti, an assembly was formed that voted for the unification of Venice to Italy. As a result, the Austrians destroyed a large part of the city and Venice surrendered on 22 August 1849.

The uprising escalated quickly and the war expanded to include all of Italy against Austria. The Duchy of Milan, the Pope and the King of Naples sent reinforcements to fight against the Austrians. The Austrians, on the other hand, were helped by the Holy Alliance.

In 1866, the Treaty of Vienna was signed and the Austrians ceded Venice to France, which would then give it back to the Kingdom of Italy.
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On 19 April 1893, the City Council of Venice and the mayor Riccardo Selvatico passed a resolution to create a national art exhibition in the Lagoon. The first Venice Biennale was inaugurated on 30 April 1895. Today, it is one of the most renowned art exhibitions in the world.

The Serenissima suffered great urban and territorial changes at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1917, a part of Mestre was added to Venice. The Italian government decided to develop a residential area on Porto Marghera.

In 1933, the Ponte della Libertà was built and hence, the road connecting Venice to Padua. The Corso del Popolo was constructed to connect it to Mestre and part of the Canal Salso was interrupted.

After World War II, an important urban expansion took place in the city's surroundings. During the same period, many inhabitants that lived in the heart of Venice moved to Mestre, especially in the seventies and after the floodings of 1966.

A tornado registered as F5 on the Fujita scale struck Venice on 11 September 1970 killing 21 people and destroying much of the city centre.

Today, the biggest economy in Venice is based on tourism. The city is also an important cultural hub thanks to La Biennale, the Film Festival and one of the most prominent universities in Italy, Ca' Foscari. Nevertheless, the Serenissima suffers from a high percentage of its population leaving the city due to the negative impact of a mass tourism and the high prices of the city.

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Geographically, Florida is a fascinating place. The state boasts countless idyllic white sand beaches, incredible subtropical wilderness, swamps, mangrove islands and miles of breathtaking coastline. For Florida-bound travelers keen on exploring the state's main landforms, visits to national and state parks are a must.

Geography and Landforms in Florida

Florida's geography and landforms are unlike any other in the country. The Sunshine State has a diverse mix of marshes, springs, swamps, beaches, islands, rivers and lakes. Essentially, there are four main regions which are each home to specific landforms, flora and fauna. These are the upland (hilly area), the Everglades (swamp and wetland), the Florida Keys (an archipelago of over 1,500 islands) and the Gulf Coast (coastal plains).

Visit Florida's State and National Parks

The best way to get a feel for Florida's geography and landforms is to visit one of the state's many parks and natural areas. Of course, the Everglades is at the top of this list, along with nearby Big Cypress and the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

Everglades National Park protects over 1.5 million acres of wetland, much of which is an important habitat for many rare and endangered species including the Florida panther, the American crocodile and the manatee. It can be tough to know where to begin exploring in this vast tropical wilderness, but there are a few must-do activities: Be sure to explore Cape Sable and Florida Bay by boat and kayak through the Wilderness Waterway, a 100-mile trail through mangroves, rivers, lagoons and bays; don't miss Big Cypress, a giant freshwater swamp and park with plenty of activities to suit every traveler, from bird-watching to biking to canoeing. Finally, the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary protects over 10,000 acres of wetlands and old-growth bald-cypress swamp, and it's an amazing sight. For birdwatchers and flower fans, especially, this wild stretch of wetlands is worth a visit: Corkscrew Swamp is run by the National Audubon Society, and it's also one of the only places in the country where you can see a blooming ghost orchid.

Though there are over 170 state parks in Florida, there are a few that stand out: namely, Bahia Honda State Park, Big Lagoon State Park, Sebastian Inlet State Park and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. John Pennekamp is an extraordinary system of protected undersea coral; Sebastian Inlet is situated on a barrier island north of Vero Beach (and provides the perfect spot to kayak in the Indian River Lagoon); Big Lagoon State Park, next to picturesque Perdido Key, is home to both tidal salt marshes and scenic pine flat woods; and, Bahia Honda State Park is routinely recognized as the all-time best beach in the Florida Keys.

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What was the magnitude of the earthquake that caused the tsunami that devastated coastal areas of Japan in 2011?

Where was the epicenter of the Great Sendai Earthquake?

What was the death toll of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011?

What effects did the Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 have?

By what names is the Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 known?

Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011, severe natural disaster that occurred in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan's main island, which caused widespread damage on land and initiated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas of the country, most notably in the Tōhoku region (northeastern Honshu). The tsunami also instigated a major nuclear accident at a power station along the coast.

The earthquake and tsunami

The magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 pm. (The early estimate of magnitude 8.9 was later revised upward.) The epicentre was located some 80 miles (130 km) east of the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, and the focus occurred at a depth of 18.6 miles (about 30 km) below the floor of the western Pacific Ocean. The earthquake was caused by the rupture of a stretch of the subduction zone associated with the Japan Trench, which separates the Eurasian Plate from the subducting Pacific Plate. (Some geologists argue that this portion of the Eurasian Plate is actually a fragment of the North American Plate called the Okhotsk microplate.) A part of the subduction zone measuring approximately 190 miles (300 km) long by 95 miles (150 km) wide lurched as much as 164 feet (50 metres) to the east-southeast and thrust upward about 33 feet (10 metres). The March 11 temblor was felt as far away as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia; Kao-hsiung, Taiwan; and Beijing, China. It was preceded by several foreshocks, including a magnitude-7.2 event centred approximately 25 miles (40 km) away from the epicentre of the main quake. Hundreds of aftershocks, dozens of magnitude 6.0 or greater and two of magnitude 7.0 or greater, followed in the days and weeks after the main quake. (Nearly two years later, on December 7, 2012, a magnitude-7.3 tremor originated from the same plate boundary region. The quake caused no injuries and little damage.) The March 11, 2011, earthquake was the strongest to strike the region since the beginning of record keeping in the late 19th century, and it is considered one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. It was later reported that a satellite orbiting at the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere that day had detected infrasonics (very low-frequency sound waves) from the quake.

The sudden horizontal and vertical thrusting of the Pacific Plate, which has been slowly advancing under the Eurasian Plate near Japan, displaced the water above and spawned a series of highly destructive tsunami waves. A wave measuring some 33 feet high inundated the coast and flooded parts of the city of Sendai, including its airport and the surrounding countryside. According to some reports, one wave penetrated some 6 miles (10 km) inland after causing the Natori River, which separates Sendai from the city of Natori to the south, to overflow. Damaging tsunami waves struck the coasts of Iwate prefecture, just north of Miyagi prefecture, and Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Chiba, the prefectures extending along the Pacific coast south of Miyagi. In addition to Sendai, other communities hard-hit by the tsunami included Kamaishi and Miyako in Iwate; Ishinomaki, Kesennuma, and Shiogama in Miyagi; and Kitaibaraki and Hitachinaka in Ibaraki. As the floodwaters retreated back to the sea, they carried with them enormous quantities of debris, as well as thousands of victims caught in the deluge. Large stretches of land were left submerged under seawater, particularly in lower-lying areas.

The earthquake triggered tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific basin. The tsunami raced outward from the epicentre at speeds that approached about 500 miles (800 km) per hour. It generated waves 11 to 12 feet (3.3 to 3.6 metres) high along the coasts of Kauai and Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands chain and 5-foot (1.5-metre) waves along the island of Shemya in the Aleutian Islands chain. Several hours later 9-foot (2.7-metre) tsunami waves struck the coasts of California and Oregon in North America. Finally, some 18 hours after the quake, waves roughly 1 foot (0.3 metre) high reached the coast of Antarctica and caused a portion of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf to break off its outer edge.

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Archaeologists are revealing the full story of prehistoric Britain's greatest natural disaster - a huge tsunami which may have drowned up to a quarter of the population.

It is estimated that multiple giant waves inundated some 2,700 square miles of land - from Scotland in the north to Norfolk in the south.

New underwater research carried out by the universities of Bradford, Warwick, St Andrews and Wales has for the first time discovered that the tsunami devastated parts of East Anglia and adjacent land which is now submerged beneath the southern part of the North Sea.

Indeed, the new research suggests that two-thirds of the land inundated by the tsunami was in that newly investigated southern area of submerged territory, sometimes popularly dubbed Britain's North Sea Atlantis.

Up till now, scientists only had evidence of it affecting eastern Scotland and northern England. Some models of the event had suggested that East Anglia and the southern North Sea might have also been affected - but the new underwater archaeological research suggests that the impact was much more extensive for that southern area than the models had predicted.

It is also estimated that in some places on Scotland's east coast the tsunami wave was up to 20m high, and in Shetland, between 30m and 40m high.

The catastrophe unfolded in about 6200BC, when Britain's population was made up of thousands of very small hunter-gatherer communities - perhaps a total of around 50,000 people, concentrated predominantly in coastal areas, especially river estuaries and floodplains along the east coast.

Most people were at least partly dependent on marine resources, so they tended to live in small temporary or semi-permanent encampments and settlements relatively close to the sea.

That made them particularly vulnerable to the disaster. It's possible that, in total, up to 12,000 prehistoric Britons lost their lives.

The tsunami was caused by a huge underwater landslide which occurred off the west coast of Norway. Scientists believe that three factors combined to trigger the slide.

Firstly, the end of the final glacial period of the Ice Age led to a warming of the climate which turned vast quantities of long-frozen methane under the sea bed into millions of cubic metres of gas, which destabilised the edge of Norway's steep continental shelf.

These increased temperatures had also melted thousands of cubic kilometres of glacial ice in Scandinavia. That second process removed billions of tons of weight from the surface of Norway, allowing the land to rise. In doing so, it seems to have potentially triggered earthquakes.

Such an earthquake was the likely immediate cause of the catastrophe in 6200 BC. It is estimated that about 767 cubic miles of continental shelf collapsed in just a few hours, causing the tsunami.

The event affected the coasts and river valleys of eastern Britain, western Denmark, northwest Germany, Norway, Shetland, Orkney, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.

In Britain, many east coast estuaries and river valleys were inundated. Many temporary encampments and semi-permanent settlements in these areas would have been wiped out.

"Our new research suggests that a significant proportion of the British Mesolithic coastal population almost certainly suffered fatalities," said Dr Simon Fitch, an archaeologist and prehistoric population modeller from the University of Bradford.

The key estuaries and river valleys affected would have included the Moray Firth, the lower Spey Valley, the Firth of Tay and the Tay Valley, the Firth of Forth and the Forth Valley, the Tees Valley, the Humber estuary area, the Wash and three valleys in land which is now covered by the southwestern North Sea.

"The multidisciplinary investigation we carried out reveals that the tsunami wasn't just a single wave - but impacted the now submerged southern North Sea area we examined in three successive inundations, probably spread over just a few hours at most," said geophysicist Dr Richard Bates, of the University of St Andrews.

In some parts of Britain the tsunami penetrated far inland. Geomorphological evidence shows that it surged inland along Scotland's Forth river for some 20 miles.

It is thought that it probably took hundreds of years for Britain's population to recover. The waves may also have temporarily and very severely disrupted coastal food resources - especially the shellfish on which a substantial part of the population depended. As a result, it is conceivable that competition for surviving resources temporarily increased and resulted in low-level warfare. Certainly evidence from the tsunami-affected west coast of Denmark for that period suggests that such interpersonal violence increased.

The 6200 BC tsunami event, known as the Storegga Slide, is of particular interest to scientists because of the possibility it may happen again. Continental shelf landslides do still occur in parts of the world, and current global warming increases the risk through methane release. Although earthquakes in the North Sea and in Norway are relatively rare, they do sometimes occur - the most recent substantial ones being off the coast of Norway in 2012 and 2018 (magnitude 6.6 and 6.8 respectively) and in the southern North Sea in 1931 and 1958 (6.1 and 5.1).

"By investigating the former terrestrial landscapes now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, we have succeeded in shedding important new light on British prehistory, on climate change and on the continuing potential threat from tsunamis, sea level rise and storm surges," said the leader of the research project, archaeologist Professor Vince Gaffney of the University of Bradford.

The multidisciplinary team's investigation into the tsunami's impact on now long-submerged land in the southern North Sea is published this week in the international scientific journal, Geosciences.

The wave height and coastal impacts of the Storegga Slide were similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami - although the kinetic energy levels, speed and distance covered by the 2004 wave was much greater, as was the loss of life.

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Southwestern France was hit by heavy flooding on Monday following days of torrential rain, and several other regions including eastern Paris were onflood alert ahead of a cold snap expected later this week.

The worst flooding was in Saintes, 115 km (71 miles) north of Bordeaux, where the river Charente stood at a near-record level of 6.20 metres (20 feet). The waters were at waist level in several streets and knee-deep in large parts of the town.

Hundreds of people were evacuated as water seeping into cellars knocked out power supplies. Local authorities laid beams on cinder blocks so residents could walk from flooded houses to dry land.

"We knew this was in a flood zone, but not that the area could flood up to this point, otherwise we would never have taken this flat," said Saintes resident Cyril Cheransac, who had to leave the apartment where he has lived for less than a year.

Fire brigade chief Pascal Leprince said his services had evacuated about 400 people in Saintes and he estimated that up to 800 people had left their houses on their own.

To the southeast of Bordeaux, where the river Garonne last week flooded large areas between Marmande and La Reole, floodwaters were receding, but the waters of the Charente were not expected to fall before Wednesday.

"We are at a peak level now. We expect water levels to rise a little more in coming days, and to subside from mid-week," a Charente-Maritime spokeswoman said.

The city of Cognac, centre of brandy production on the Charente river, also saw several streets flooded.
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The France Meteo weather service put seven departments on flood alert on Monday, including Charente-Maritime, two areas along the Loire river, the Somme and Oise regions in northern France and the Seine-et-Marne region east of Paris.

In Paris, parts of quays on the river Seine have been inaccessible for days after the river broke its banks, but water levels, at 4.35 metres on Monday morning, remained well below recent highs of 5.88 metres seen in January 2018 and 6.10 metres in June 2016.

Along the river Marne, which flows into the Seine on the eastern edge of the capital, the river broke its banks in several towns, notably in Conde-Sainte-Libaire and Esbly, where several streets were flooded.

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Severe floods strike southwest France, Paris area on flood alert

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Southwestern France was hit by heavy flooding on Monday following days of torrential rain, and several other regions including eastern Paris were onflood alert ahead of a cold snap expected later this week. The worst flooding was in Saintes, 115 km (71 miles) north of Bordeaux, where the river Charente stood at a near-record level of 6.20 metres (20 feet).

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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Mt. Etna-Italy's and Europe's tallest active volcano-spewed lava and ash into the atmosphere in a brief but spectacular eruption. The volcano is one of the most active in the world, so this eruption isn't surprising, but it sure was beautiful. The eruption lasted less than an hour with no reports of injuries.

Sicilian photographer Marco Restivo was able to capture the stunning event and the " dirty thunderstorm " that accompanied it. Eruptions like this often feature lightning, and meteorologists theorize that the ash particles rub together (much like a balloon rubbed on your head) to create the electrical charges over the volcano.

Earlier this year, the same thing happened during the stunning eruption of the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile.

Smoke, ash, and sulphur dioxide from this morning's Mt. Etna eruption were visible from space, and reached an altitude of more than 10,000 feet above the summit.

Owing to its location in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Mt. Etna has the longest written record of eruptions of any volcano on Earth. Roman records from 122 B.C. show a large eruption blocked the sun for several days, causing widespread damage. Roman taxes were cancelled for 10 years to help locals rebuild.

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Europe's Tallest Active Volcano Unleashes Spectacular Eruption

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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Mt. Etna-Italy's and Europe's tallest active volcano-spewed lava and ash into the atmosphere in a brief but spectacular eruption. The volcano is one of the most active in the world, so this eruption isn't surprising, but it sure was beautiful.

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In this world, there are cat people and there are dog people. If you're a dog person who doesn't like cats, Old San Juan could be your idea of a personal hell. If you're a cat person, there's no shortage. Old San Juan has a cat epidemic. Gingers, black cats, tortoise shells - this isn't a place for Siamese, Russian Blues or other exotics, just a few hundred alley cats.

Cats were introduced to Puerto Rico to battle plagues of rats and other vermin. Many are direct descendants from their Spanish lineage. Now they're as much a part of Old San Juan as the colorful buildings and city walls. With that comes plenty of attitudes, lying around sleeping, fleas and stench. Around the epicenter of activity (or more to the point, inactivity), Callejon Hospital, the odor of kitty waste is almost unbearable, with the heat baking it into the blue cobblestones and stucco porticos.

Rather than cull the population, a charity has been established, Save A Gato, a group of volunteers who use cat lovers' generous donations to feed, trap, neuter, immunize and return the cats to the sleepy streets. To track domestics versus strays, those who have been neutered by Save A Gato have a small piece of their ear trimmed, adding to their mangy charm.

Tourists are advised not to feed the cats. Instead, there are donation tins where people can make a positive (read: financial) contribution to Save A Gato so they can keep doing their good work and keeping the cats (and rats) under control.

WHAT?

Puerto Rico is home to hundreds of stray cats.

WHERE?

They can be found all over Old San Juan but the kitty epicenter is around the Callejon Hospital

HOW?

Help the locals to look after the cats by donating at Save a Gato.

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Pompeii, a flourishing resort city south of ancient Rome, was nestled along the coast of Italy in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano. Its most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when it buried the city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. The dust "poured across the land" like a flood, one witness wrote, and shrouded the city in "a darkness...like the black of closed and unlighted rooms." Two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for almost as many years. When a group of explorers rediscovered the site in 1748, they were surprised to find that beneath a thick layer of dust and debris, Pompeii was mostly intact. The buildings, artifacts and skeletons left behind in the entombed city have taught us a great deal about everyday life in the ancient world.
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Where Is Pompeii?

Located on the west coast of Italy along the shores of the Bay of Naples-south of the modern-day city of Naples- ancient Greek settlers made Pompeii part of the Hellenistic sphere in the 8th century B.C. An independent-minded town, Pompeii fell under the influence of Rome in the 2nd century B.C., and eventually the Bay of Naples became an attraction for wealthy vacationers from Rome who relished the Campania coastline.

By the turn of the first century A.D., the town of Pompeii, located about five miles from Mount Vesuvius, was a flourishing resort for the most distinguished citizens of the Roman Empire. Elegant houses and elaborate villas-many filled with exquisite artworks and sparkling fountains-lined the paved streets.

Much of the city's wealth derived from its rich volcanic soil-the region was a center for olives, grapes and other crops, and wine from Pompeii was enjoyed in some of Rome's most fashionable houses.

Tourists, townspeople and enslaved people bustled in and out of small factories and artisans' shops, taverns, cafes, brothels and bathhouses. People gathered in the 20,000-seat arena and lounged in the open-air squares and marketplaces.

On the eve of the fateful eruption in 79 A.D., scholars estimate that there were about 12,000 people living in Pompeii and almost as many in the surrounding region.

Did you know? Mount Vesuvius has not erupted since 1944, but it is still one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Experts believe that another catastrophic eruption is due any day-an almost unfathomable catastrophe, since almost 3 million people live within 20 miles of the volcano's crater.

Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius did not form overnight, of course. Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc that stretches along the convergence of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates on the Italian peninsula-it been erupting for thousands of years.

Sometime around 1995 B.C., for example, an unusually violent eruption (known today as the " Avellino eruption") shot millions of tons of superheated lava, ash and rocks about 22 miles into the sky. That Bronze Age catastrophe destroyed almost every village, house and farm within 15 miles of the mountain.

Villagers around the volcano had long learned to live with their volatile neighbor. Even after a massive earthquake struck the Campania region in 63 A.D.-a quake that, scientists now understand, offered a warning rumble of the disaster to come-people still flocked to the shores of the Bay of Naples, and Pompeii grew more crowded every year.

Pompeii Eruption

Sixteen years after that telltale earthquake, in either August or October of 79 A.D., a number of small earthquakes rocked the Pompeii region. The people there shrugged off the temblors since they "were not particularly alarming because they are frequent in Campania," according to the writer and eyewitness Pliny the Younger.

Then, shortly after noon on that fateful day, Mount Vesuvius erupted again. The blast sent a plume of ash, rock and scorching-hot volcanic gases so high into the sky that people could see it for hundreds of miles around.

Pliny the Younger, who watched the eruption from across the Bay of Naples, compared this "cloud of unusual size and appearance" to a pine tree that "rose to a great height on a sort of trunk and then split off into branches." (Today, geologists refer to this type of volcanic blast as a "Plinean eruption.")

As it cooled, this tower of debris drifted to earth: first the fine-grained ash, then the lightweight chunks of pumice and other rocks. It was terrifying-"I believed I was perishing with the world," Pliny wrote, "and the world with me"-but it was not yet lethal: Most Pompeiians had plenty of time to flee, and many did.

Herculaneum and Pompeii

For those who stayed behind in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns, conditions soon grew much worse. As more and more ash fell, it clogged the air, making it difficult to breathe. Buildings collapsed under overloaded roofs, but still some people remained in the city, now covered under several feet of ash.

Then, on the morning of the following day, a "pyroclastic flow"-a 100-miles-per-hour blast of superheated gas and pulverized rock-poured down the side of the mountain and vaporized everything and everyone in its path.

By the time the Vesuvius eruption sputtered to an end on the second day of the eruption, Pompeii was buried under millions of tons of volcanic ash.

Some people drifted back to town in search of lost relatives or belongings, but there was virtually nothing left to find. Pompeii, along with the neighboring town of Herculaneum and a number of villas in the area, was abandoned for centuries.

Pompeii Bodies

About 2,000 Pompeiians died in the city, but the eruption in total killed up to 16,000 people in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns and villages in the region.

Bodies of men, women, children and animals were frozen right where they'd fallen-many of the bodies uncovered later were still clutching valuable household objects they'd hoped to carry safely out of the city. Some bodies were found with their arms poignantly wrapped around children or other loved ones.

Later archaeologists even uncovered jars of preserved fruit and loaves of bread. Most of the city's buildings were intact, and everyday objects and household goods still littered the streets. The powdery volcanic ash that buried Pompeii had proved to be an excellent preservative.

Pompeii Exhibit

Pompeii remained mostly untouched until 1748, when a group of explorers looking for ancient artifacts arrived in Campania and began to dig. They found that the ashes had acted as a marvelous preservative: Underneath all that dust, Pompeii was almost exactly as it had been almost 2,000 years before.

Many scholars cite the excavation of Pompeii as an influence in the neo-Classical revival of the 18th century. Europe's wealthiest and most fashionable families displayed art and reproductions of objects from the ruins, and drawings of Pompeii's buildings helped shape the architectural trends of the era.

For example, wealthy British families often built "Etruscan rooms" that mimicked those in Pompeiian villas. Today, many of the preserved artworks, frescoes and other artifacts are on exhibit at the Pompeii Antiquarium, located among the city's ruins.

The excavation of Pompeii that has been going on for almost three centuries continues today, and the entire site has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Scholars and tourists remain just as fascinated by the city's eerie ruins-and the artifacts and bodies buried on that fateful day over 2,000 years ago-as they were in the 18th century.

"Many disasters have befallen the world," wrote the German philosopher-poet Goethe, after touring Pompeii's ruins in the 1780s, "but few have brought posterity so much joy."
READ MORE: The Deadliest Volcanic Eruption in History
Sources

History of Pompeii. Pompeii Online.
Antiquarium. Pompeiisites.org.
Resurrecting Pompeii. Smithsonian Magazine.
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata. UNESCO World Heritage Convention.

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President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said the scale of natural disasters that have hit Russia this year is "absolutely unprecedented" as local officials ask for Moscow's help to tackle fires and floods.

A former skeptic of man-made climate change, the Russian leader called on authorities to do everything possible to help Siberians affected by the region's gigantic wildfires, as well as Russians living in the flood-hit south of the country.

Speaking at a video conference with the leaders of the affected eastern and southern regions, Putin said he received daily reports on the climate situation in the country.

"In the south (of Russia), the monthly norm of rainfall now falls in a few hours and in the Far East on the contrary, forest fires in drought conditions are spreading rapidly," Putin said.

In Russia's largest and coldest region of Yakutia, this summer's forest fires have already burned through an area larger than Portugal.

Russian weather officials and environmentalists have linked the increasing intensity of Siberia's annual fires to climate change.

"All of this once again shows how important it is for us to deeply and systematically work on the climate and environment agenda," he said.

He called on authorities to be ready to evacuate more people living in areas affected by the fires -- especially the elderly -- as well as provide economic support for them.

He also asked officials to calculate the effects of the fires and make plans to reconstruct houses.

The Russian leader said it was important to do everything to "save the forest riches" and "minimise damage for animals of the taiga", a word used to describe northern Russian forests.

- Hundreds evacuated -

Local officials pleaded for reinforcements and Moscow's economic help to deal with the human cost of damage caused by extreme weather.

Aysen Nikolayev, the head of Yakutia, said firefighters were able to save 230 houses from flames.

He said evacuated villagers had received psychological help, with local children being sent to holiday camps.

He called the scale of the fires a first "in history" and asked for help after the region's harvest was severely affected.

"We will continue to save more houses," he said, thanking Putin for his support.

This week Russia launched a national response centre and deployed additional firefighters to battle the devastating Siberian fires.

The governor of the southern Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratyev said 132 people -- mostly holidaymakers -- had been evacuated in the Black Sea resort of Anapa last night amid rising floods.

"We could not predict what would happen at night," he said, adding that the region had "the same rainfall in a day as we usually get in a year."

Kondratyev said that despite difficult climate conditions, the holiday season in resort areas is "continuing and under control."

The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that two people have died as a result of floods on the peninsula and that over 3,000 have asked authorities for help.

Heavy smog hung over the regional capital of Yakutsk on Friday, which was declared a non-working day in much of the region over health concerns due to wildfire smoke.

For years Putin was notorious for his scepticism about man-made global warming and saying Russia stands to benefit from it.

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The Russian leader this year participated in a summit hosted by US President Joe Biden and said Moscow is interested in "stepping up international cooperation" on climate change.

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