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# Urban underground creates risks
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2005/01/urban_undergrou/
- Published: 2005-01-15T21:01:13.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:05:49.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

> [BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Urban underground ‘faces risks’](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4162799.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):
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> Natural disasters can be a threat to the growing expansion of big cities underground, the United Nations says.
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> It says developers often burrow beneath the surface without knowing enough of the risks and with inadequate plans to lessen the effects of any disaster.

I imagine this will be taken more seriously than it would have been a month ago.