CENALT (CENtre d’Alerte aux Tsunamis) is the French National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting ...
CENALT
CENALT (CENtre d’Alerte aux Tsunamis) is the French National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting ...
Location | 48°51.4′N 2°21.05'E1 |
Area | 551,500 km2 3 |
Coastline | 4,853 km* |
Climate | France has four broad climatic zones: the humid seaboard zone west of the line Bayonne-Lille with cool summers; a semi-continental zone with cold winters and hot summers in Alsace-Lorraine, along the rhodanian corridor and in the mountainous massifs (Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central); an intermediate zone with cold winters and hot summers in the North, the Paris region and the central region; and a Mediterranean zone with mild winters and quite hot summers in the south of France. |
Terrain | |
Population | 63,937,0003 |
Official Languages | French1 |
Natural Hazards | Storm and flood2 |