Bangladesh in gravest threat of earthquake
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Bangladesh, the country of more than 160 million people and the highest in the population density chart, is located on the worlds largest river delta. The country is close to sea level, which exposes it to tsunamis and the possibility of rivers jumping their banks in the event of earthquake.Scientists have come to recognise that it sits at the juncture of several active tectonic plate boundariesincluding the tail end of the one that caused the 2004 Sumatra tsunami that killed over 200,000 people,
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