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These images show the areas where the current flood plain is (figure on the left) and the expansion of the floodplain in 2100 (figure on the right) due to sea-level rise and an earthquake with either low, medium, or high levels of subsidence, or sinking land.

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Images courtesy of Tina Dura.

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