Subject: Re: Natural disasters - shifting borders?<br/>
Date: Mar 06, 2003 @ 20:07<br/>
Author: Francisco (&quot;Francisco&quot; &lt;xuax@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1612292795">Victor Cantore &lt;drpotatoes@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; i heard on the news on sunday that there was a small<br/>
&gt; earthquake on usmx and it got me to thinking.<br/>
&gt; has a border ever shifted due to a natural disaster,<br/>
&gt; earthquake or otherwise? what would happen in that<br/>
&gt; case? do treaties address plate tectonics, etc. at<br/>
&gt; all?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Hi Victor,<br/>
In fact, sometimes river dams provoke artificial disasters, which in <br/>
turn change river banks and move islands, disturbing the previously <br/>
unshifted centuries-old borders. I&#39;m talking about the river <br/>
Minho/Miño in PTES northwestern border.<br/>
I helped Jan in a text about this case, which is at his Jan S. <br/>
Krogh&#39;s GeoSite:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://home.no.net/enklaver/borders/minoriverborder.htm">http://home.no.net/enklaver/borders/minoriverborder.htm</a><br/>
<br/>
Francisco,<br/>
Portugal</div>