The Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir lie mainly in Central Asia along the edge of the Indian plate and hence are prone to violent earthquakes where the two tectonic plates collide.

Areas prone to high bank erosion rates as well as urbanized areas also contribute large amounts of turbidity to nearby waters, through stormwater pollution from paved surfaces such as roads, bridges and parking lots.

Areas with no surface protection are more prone to erosion.

* Areas with a high annual precipitation due to a frequent cloud cover in combination with heavy and sometimes persistent orographic rainfall ; such forests have a perceptible canopy strata, a high number of epiphytes and a thick peat layer which has a high storage capacity for water and controls the runoff ;

Areas along and near East Main Street and Poplar Street sustained heavy structural damage, including several heavily damaged homes and apartment buildings.

This increase of movement allows for the specialization of regional centers ( e. g. heavy industry, business park, Retail Areas ).

Areas such as the Antelope Valley desert which is a high desert received snow each year, in the past it could snow 2-3 times a year ; however, recently snow level has declined significantly to once a year or less.

Areas near a coast might have a lower snow line than areas of the same altitude and latitude situated in a landmass interior due to more winter snowfall and because the average summer temperature of the surrounding lowlands would be warmer away from the sea.

Areas as far south as central Alabama and Georgia received of snow and areas such as Birmingham, Alabama, received up to with isolated reports of.

Areas above 2, 500 feet ( 762 m ) get light to moderate snow in the winter, especially at the highest point, the 5, 241 ft ( 1, 597 m ) San Benito Mountain in the remote southeastern section of the range.

Areas of dense vegetation, such as jungles and forest, act as force-multipliers, of benefit to inferior armies.

Because they are not part of the United Kingdom, they are not answerable to the British Government ; instead they are organised by and are responsible to their own governments ( an exception to this is the Sovereign Base Areas Police-because the SBAs existence is purely for the benefit of the British armed forces and do not have full overseas territory status, the SBA Police are responsible to the Ministry of Defence ).

Areas should be large enough to include the attractions, have ample space for the use of facilities needed, and have room around the edges to protect the values of the area from encroachment by private developments.

Areas of open water left from ice melt are good areas for phytoplankton blooms.

Dublin City Council is a unicameral assembly of 52 members elected every five years from Local Election Areas.

Areas further from the center were the domain of the chōnin ( 町人, literally " townsfolk ").

Source of " Today " map: compiled by George Draffan from roadless area map in The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States, by Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke ( Harmony Books, 1992 ).

Areas which were converted to Islam early, such as Aceh, broke away from Srivijaya ’ s control.

Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

There are representatives from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and from Islamabad Capital Territory.

Immigration control separates Schengen from non-Schengen Areas.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

The recent history of Tours is marked by the personality of Jean Royer, who was Mayor for 36 years and helped to save the old town from demolition by establishing one of the first Conservation Areas.

Areas of the photo-etch image may be stopped-out before etching to exclude them from the final image on the plate, or removed or lightened by scraping and burnishing once the plate has been etched.

Areas are identified by 32-bit numbers, expressed either simply in decimal, or often in octet-based dot-decimal notation, familiar from IPv4 address notation.

Marine Protected Areas ( MPAs ), Biosphere reserves, marine parks, national monuments world heritage status, fishery management and habitat protection can protect reefs from anthropogenic damage.

The Industrial Development Act of 1966 changed the name of Development Districts ( parts of the country with higher levels of unemployment than the national average and which governments sought to encourage greater investment in ) to Development Areas and increased the percentage of the workforce covered by development schemes from 15 % to 20 %, which mainly affected rural areas in Scotland and Wales.

" Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas ( HPSAs ) and Physician Scarcity Areas ( PSAs ) can receive incentive payments from Medicare.

Areas of upwelling provide supplies of nitrogen from below the euphotic zone.

Articles VII and VIII of the Egypt-Israel GAA established a Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) centred on El-Auja and forbade the presence of armed forces it also prohibited Egypt from maintaining positions in an adjoining area west of the Demilitarized Zone, and limited the arms and troops in the Defensive Areas on both sides of the Line.

Areas north of Santa Rosa and Windsor, with larger elevations to the west and further from the fog path, tend to receive less fog and less summer marine influence.

In the Northern Areas of Pakistan, Gilgit / Baltistan, the history of courtyard is slightly different from the rest of the world.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan ( CERP ) proposed more than 60 construction projects over 30 years to store water that was being flushed into the ocean, in reservoirs, underground aquifers, and abandoned quarries ; add more Stormwater Treatment Areas to filter water that flowed into the lower Everglades ; regulate water released from pumping stations into local waterways and improve water released to Everglades National Park and Water Conservation Areas ; remove barriers to sheetflow by raising the Tamiami Trail and destroying the Miami Canal, and reuse wastewater for urban areas.

Areas where metal is detected are carefully probed to determine if a mine is present ; the probing must continue until the object that set off the metal detector is found.

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As noted by Brian Lapping, the Community Development Projects were also designed to test the view that within poor communities local residents could articulate local grievances, get conditions in their areas improved, and provide some kind of political leadership, in a way that the existing political structure had failed to do, “ largely because these areas of intense poverty were rarely big enough to be electorally important .” In assessing the First Wilson Government ’ s efforts to uplift the poorest members of British society via the establishment of the Community Development Projects and the designation of the Educational Priority Areas, Brian Lapping noted that

Areas of moorland inland such as: Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor experience lower temperatures and more precipitation than the rest of the south west ( approximately twice as much rainfall as lowland areas ), because of their high altitude.

In New England, because of the greater importance of towns over counties, similar areas are defined based on town units, known as New England City and Town Areas ( NECTAs ).

The use of semi-generic names is beginning to become a problem for US domestic and foreign policy because as many American Viticultural Areas ( AVAs ) are becoming more popular around the world, they are seeking greater protection for their names inside and outside the U. S.

Areas of neighboring Fitchburg were once part of Lunenburg, but broke away around this time because the walking distance to church and town meetings was too great for many.

Areas outside the triangle cannot be accurately colored because they are out of the gamut of sRGB therefore they have been interpreted.

This Ohio public land was dedicated as a state nature preserve, in part because the Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves donated $ 50, 000 to the purchase price.

Crosscuts are still in use today in the United States primarily because the US Forest Service interprets the Wilderness Act to mean that they cannot use power tools in Wilderness Areas.

During the development of the game, Spyro was originally going to be green, but the developers thought it was a bad idea because he would blend in with the Grass Areas, so they eventually changed him to purple.

Areas that would otherwise have hills do not because of glacier cover during the Ice Age.

Areas such as Gudbrandsdalen became popular travel destinations because of their historical importance and reputation as rural heartlands, where many locals claimed ancestry from the Norse kings.

* Galactic-Latitude: Areas of the sky in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way were excluded from the study because the density of stars in those fields — not to mention interstellar obscuration — made it difficult to positively identify galaxy clusters.

But because United States Naval intelligence had broken the Japanese naval cypher code, Admiral Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas in Hawaii, learned of Japanese plans by 21 May 1942.

Application of the Group Areas Act became very lax in the 1980s, among other things because courts were not able to handle all the cases, and when the Act was abolished even more disadvantaged black people moved into the City Centre, often taking over whole buildings by overfilling them with people that the previous middle class white tenants found unacceptable neighbours.