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Student’s Name Instructor Date Italy The disruptions in Italy’s recent history as a result of natural disasters reveal devastating damages to not only the country’s environment but also its economy and the overall society. Italy records significant loss of properties worth millions of dollars, life and the impact on its environment are evident every time the country experiences some form of a natural disaster. The country is prone to various types of natural hazards that threaten its overall development and sustenance of acquired wealth. This paper evaluates Italy by identifying the nation’s geological characteristics and meteorological factors that leave the country prone to such hazards. Italy tends to be vulnerable to a variety of natural risks such as earthquakes, mudflows, floods, landslides, tsunamis, storm surges, storms, volcanic eruptions, land subsidence and avalanches. The state’s topography is mountainous and rugged, and the Mediterranean climate tends to be unpredictable. As a result, the country accounts for nearly 9.8 percent of the land at risk to landslide or flood within the Italian turf which affects about 82 percent of the nation’s municipalities. The globe is divided into various main tectonic plates. Italy’s southern region sits above the Eurasian and African plates that meet and grind against each other persistently (ABC News n.p). As a result, ABC News suggests that the grating of these two plates forms volcanic and seismic tensions (n.p). For example, the major volcanoes in Italy such as Vesuvius, Etna, and Stromboli which lie near this fault. Moreover, the country has several other smaller fault lines, especially ones
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