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Coastal Hazards

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Hazard In the country of Vietnam every year waves have been gradually destryoing 3-4 meters of land. Not only that but due to this every year at least 80-90 houses get washed away. The reason as to why the country is experiencing such high erosion rates is because of the increase on urbanization, economic growth, as well as climate change. Even with such risks happening in the coast of Vietnam that is where economic sectors are hosted such as tourism, industry, and aquaculture which work as a way to help the socioeconomic development in the country. It has been told that more than 50% of eroded areas in the country are more than 1km in length and 10.6% of the coast has gone 200m or more inland which just shows how bad it is in the central coastline excluding the north/south parts. Another major factor for such a thing happening in Vietnam is due to the tropical cyclones that are 60% of storms that affect Vietnam's marine zone. As for human factors that affect the erosion happening ...

Extreme Weather

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  Type of Weather   In Vietnam their thunderstorm season begins during the months of April-October. As for the average amount of days that the country experiences thunderstorms are 100 days a year which is 250 hours a year. Not only that but there is a difference in thunderstorm activities depending on the region. The reason for the activity being different in each region is due to such things as territorial division by mountains with different aspects, which actually strengthen the activity in a region but limits others. The thunderous regions also have sharp atmospheric disturbance and favorable terrain for the formation of  các dòng thăng. Aside from that because of these thunderstorms happening in the country they also experience around 2 million lightning strikes the ground per year. It has been recorded in 2004, that 820 lightning accidents had happened over ten years and caused millions of  Vietnamese dong which is Vietnam's currency in damages as well as...