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The North Sea — a body of water located between Great ritain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Belgium and France — is frequently used as a shipping and fishing route, and is ...
The North Sea continues to be an active trade route. The countries bordering the North Sea all claim the 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) of territorial waters within which they have exclusive fishing rights. Today, the North Sea is more important as a fishery and source of fossil fuel and renewable energy, since territorial expansion of the ...
1978, January 11–12, 1978 North Sea storm surge, East coast of England. 1981, November 24–25, North Frisian Flood, severe surge with dike breaches in Denmark. 1982, December 19, the largest negative surge recorded in the North Sea coincided with a high tide, water levels dropped rapidly posing a navigational hazard.
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than 970 kilometres (600 mi) long and 580 kilometres (360 mi) wide ...
Almost 500 breaches were punched in flood-control dikes, allowing the North Sea to spill into Zeeland, South Holland and North Brabant provinces. By Feb. 1, about 770 square miles of southern ...
The geography of the North Sea studies coastal and submarine features as well as the people who live on its coasts. It is bounded by the east coasts of England and Scotland to the west and the northern and central European mainland to the east and south, including Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. [1]
Coastal hazards are physical phenomena that expose a coastal area to the risk of property damage, loss of life, and environmental degradation.Rapid-onset hazards last a few minutes to several days and encompass significant cyclones accompanied by high-speed winds, waves, and surges or tsunamis created by submarine (undersea) earthquakes and landslides.
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