Sentences with phrase «inundate coastal land»

In summer 2015, the Public Press first reported on how rising seas could inundate coastal land in the Bay Area.

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A 300 - meter object landing off the western coast of the U.S. could inundate coastal cities» with a massive tsunami, Beshore adds.

The Harvard Chan researchers, working with colleagues in Japan, were able to conduct a «natural experiment» among a group of elderly residents of the coastal city of Iwanuma, located about 80 kilometers west of the earthquake epicenter, where nearly half the land area was inundated by the tsunami.

Climate variability and change could result in low - lying lands being inundated, with resultant impacts on coastal settlements (high confidence).