Sentences with phrase «about landslides»

Let's learn about Landslides!

Coastal cities, for example, must have predictable planning against rising sea levels, should worry about landslides on slopes, flooding, etc. resulting from inclement rains.

These NO PREP materials contain informative exercises about landslides.

«No one was killed, and yet now we have this rich dataset to learn more about landslides.»

Earlier this week he addressed the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee and talked about his landslide defeat in 2006, when he lost his Senate seat to Bob Casey.

CHALLENGES: Uncertainties about landslide dynamics aside, there's little information on which areas are most vulnerable to slides.

Not exact matches

In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votes.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

Election is about voters electing those they want to lead them, and a credible voter register helps to ensure that those who vote are the true eligible voters, the card reader, which authenticates the voter identity, helps to make the voter register more robust and resistant to moon - light and landslide bogus figures.

The «sweetest victory» of the Conservatives, as David Cameron put it on May 8th, and the sweeping landslide victory of the SNP, winning all but three of the Scottish seats, were indeed shocking wake - up calls for all those concerned about British politics.

As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election -LSB-...]

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

Just when everyone is going crazy about GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's landslide win — yours truly included — comes a back - to - earth e-mail entitled «The Mouse That Roared,» compliments of my father, Dr. Gerald Benjamin.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the Labour leadership contest last year.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the...

Major's no - show did provoke anger from the programme's audience, though it was on the eve of a poll he was about to lose by a landslide, so this may not have had too much bearing on the electoral outcome.

He joked that his 6,745 - vote margin was a «landslide,» but also argued it was the result of a brutal honesty about how he planned to close the budget deficit.

Only Republican Stefan I. Mychajliw Jr. could claim a landslide victory, beating Democratic challenger Vanessa Glushefski 55 to 45 percent, or about 21,571 votes.

«People are angry because they're afraid,» Cuomo said Monday, circuitously explaining why Hillary isn't about to win New York in a landslide.

It might not be the majority Ed Miliband needed to wipe away all doubts about his leadership, but it was better than Labour did during the 1997 landslide.

Using different methods, pollsters are divided about the extent of the Conservative lead, but they all show the gap with Labour shrinking, making the landslide Mrs. May hoped for unlikely and even, for at least one polling company, raising the possibility of a hung Parliament.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is headed for a landslide win in the absence of his main rival Raila Odinga who boycotted the vote, however, his legitimacy will be sorely questioned with initial figures showing only about a third of registered voters turned up.

Mr. Christie, who has seen his own presidential ambitions take a hit after the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, told reporters yesterday that the RGA wouldn't invest in «landslides» and «lost causes» when he was questioned about Mr. Astorino's campaign.

The politician, 67, tells Angela Wintle about tough times growing up in North Kensington, dodging dogs in his postman days and happy memories of landslide Tory defeats

In an interview on the BBC's World This Weekend, Blair said that if Theresa May won a landslide, as the polls currently suggest, the Conservatives would read it as a mandate for «Brexit at any costs» — and voters concerned about the risks of leaving the EU should press every candidate to answer whether they had an open mind about whether the final deal was in Britain's interests.

In the latest edition of the Ashcroft In America podcast I interview Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe; pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us what the numbers say about the election result; historian Jon Darman considers whether we could be in for a Hillary landslide; and Hispanic voters in Miami and military families in Tampa tell us how they see the presidential and Senate races in the ultimate swing state.

When congressman are in landslide districts, they don't face an electoral threat in general elections, but still have to worry about primary elections.

More information about her time in Parliament can be found here, and her Twitter account is here, but she stands little realistic chance of being elected, short of a Labour landslide.

Throw in the fact that he's publicly mused about the seat in the past and has a history of landslide victories, and he's definitely an early favorite.

The former shadow cabinet ministers have reached a «common understanding» about the best way to take on Mr Corbyn, who won a landslide victory last year, after wrangles over who should stand against him.

There will also be serious questions about the future of the Union, following an SNP landslide that has turned Scotland into a virtual one - party state.

Log Cabin / Gay Republicans: electing Cuccinelli by such a landslide should be evidence that the Republican party couldn't care less about this constituency.

Cuomo, who is said to desire a landslide margin of victory in both the primary and general election in November, deflected reporters» questions about what it would mean if disaffected Democratic voters cast ballots tomorrow for Teachout as a form of protest against Cuomo's policies, as the New York Times editorial page suggested in its non-endorsement of his candidacy.

Mr Mann, who confronted Ken Livingstone over comments he made about Hitler, said Labour should have been enjoying a «landslide» victory.

And even the late polls were predictive on average, of about a 13 % swing, possibly more — so they were still out, but who cares / notices when Labour still achieve a record landslide / Tories lose about 150 seats?

Which is why, as De Blasio nears what is likely to be a general - election landslide victory, the central questions are about just what he believes and just who he'd be as mayor.

Small landslides typically flow about twice the distance they've fallen downslope before they run out of energy.

When the volume of a landslide exceeds about 1 million cubic meters, particles bouncing against each other create variations in pressure within the flow, with bits in some zones experiencing higher pressure than normal and others feeling below average pressure and thus sliding more readily.

Until now, little was known about how landslides in the Himalaya could affect flood risk downstream on the Ganga Plain.

Their research shows that the avalanche had a complex series of movement phases, starting with a cascade of landslide / debris flow beginning about 10 hours before the catastrophic rock slide - avalanche phases, and ending with rock slides and rock falls from an oversteepened headscarp.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

Computer models and landslide simulators — chutelike contraptions into which scientists unleash torrents of mud, water and debris — are yielding new clues about the complex factors that contribute to slope collapse.

We have ideas about the natural dynamics caused by landslides and the succession that follows their aftermath.

So, when Michigan Technological University geophysicist Wayne Pennington saw reports about a crack the length of a football field suddenly appearing in some swamp and woods in the northern area of the state's Upper Peninsula, he assumed it was a small landslide.

Collins will present what the USGS has learned about the 2014 Oso landslide, including the liquefied base layer, the intact hummock blocks, and hundreds of telltale liquefaction features such as sand boils that give evidence of the high pore pressures at the base of the slide.

«Most of the slides in this area originate from about halfway up the slope, but this flow contained sediments and vegetation from the top of the slope,» Stark said, «The higher up the slope the landslide starts, the more potential energy it will have.»

At the same time, there is relatively little long - term information about the frequency of weather conditions that increase avalanche and landslide risks, Prokop says.

On the seafloor here, the bottom dropped out about 8,200 years ago in a massive landslide.

The systems have been used to study floods, landslides, snowpacks and just about anything else under the sun that can enhance understanding of the natural processes happening around us.