Assessing Vulnerability and Adaptation to...
e con?uence of climate change and seismic events has created signi?cant environmental problems in Lifuka, an island of 2,400 people (2011 Census) in Tonga’s Ha’apai Group. ?e subregion experienced an earthquake on 3 May 2006 that measured approximately 7.9 on the Richter scale. It resulted in subsidence of 23 cm of Lifuka Island, e?ectively creating instant sea-level rise. Erosion had already been already been a problem on Lifuka for some decades; in the past 40 years, Lifuka has experienced signi?cant coastal erosion of between 2 m and 43 m, depending on location, along the western shoreline.
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