Sentences with phrase «earth impact hazard»

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Local impact - tsunami damage is known from the gigantic Chicxulub impact on Yucatán 65 million years ago, but at that scale of impact, tsunamis were the least of the hazards faced by Earth's biota.

The massive space rock — the first object to score above zero on the Torino hazard scale, which ranks the danger of an extraterrestrial impact — has about 1 chance in 500 of colliding with Earth in 2030, astronomers estimate.

«Since asteroids of sizes of tens to hundreds of meters pose a threat to the ground, even if they are intrinsically weak, impact hazard increases significantly when the Earth encounters the Taurids new branch every few years,» the scientists wrote.

The successful candidate will conduct research relevant to one of the core themes of ERI - Natural Hazards, Human Impacts, Earth System Science, and Earth Evolution - and will hold a faculty appointment in an academic department that participates in ERI.