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Disasters

The event, and the decisions that made it possible.

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Tsunami

A tsunami is not a wave — it’s water’s delayed recoil from a massive underwater jolt.
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San Andreas Fault

It doesn’t crack open the earth—it slides sideways, silently loading stress until water from a dried-up lake tips it into rupture.