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Mike Searle
Academic
Professor of Earth sciences at Oxford University.
Notable Quotes
"I think the sheer wave of debris suggests there was a landslide first, the water built up, (which) dammed the river, and then it burst in one huge great flood."View Story →
"The sheer wave of debris suggests there could have been a landslide first; the water built up, dammed the river, and then it burst in one huge great flood."View Story →
"It's like putting a jack under the car, and then jacking it up."View Story →
"these floods happen all the time, but not at this scale."View Story →
"The whole thing is combining to form these catastrophic disasters that we are now seeing at a regular basis."View Story →
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