Sentences with phrase «as tsunami»

2) Accidental Death (Not disability) due to any of following condition will settle claim a) Any type of natural calamity (such as Tsunami, river flood, earthquake.

The state ordered evacuations of its coastal areas on Friday as a tsunami warning was extended to most of the Pacific basin, including northern California and Oregon, Reuters reported.

However as the tsunami approaches the shore, it builds height because the constraint of the ocean floor below leaves it no where else to go, like our fossil full budget has a precise end date — immovable by politics or markets because its defined by physics and chemistry.

Sea level rise is accelerating, though not as dramatically as this tsunami from the 2015 disaster movie «San Andreas.»

Research back in the 1980's showed that a Tunguska - sized explosion over the Atlantic would have created one of the more memorable events in recent history as the tsunami kicked up by the explosion decimated coastal cities on both sides of the ocean.

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As tsunami warnings are issued for Indonesia, India and Thailand, UK travellers can protect their holidays with HolidayExtras.com.

As a tsunami - prone area, Bali needs more tsunami sirens covering beaches across the island, an official has said.

As a tsunami - prone area, Bali needs more tsunami sirens covering beaches across the island, an offic...

2) Accidental Death (Not disability) due to any of following condition will settle claim a) Any type of natural calamity (such as Tsunami, river flood, earthquake.

I have also witnessed a number of natural disasters: earthquakes in India and the US, a tornado in Michigan, floods in Texas, as well as a tsunami and tropical cyclones in India.

For the first time during the hurricane, PRSN took over as the tsunami warning focal point for Puerto Rico on the west side of the island, acting as the central point of contact for tsunami and other coastal hazards.

Around 59 percent of them died as a result of the collapse of masonry buildings, and 28 % of them due to secondary effects such as tsunami or landslides.

Giant lateral collapses are rather common events during the evolution of a large volcanic edifice, often with dramatic consequences such as tsunami and volcano explosions.

Japan also has some buildings specifically designed as tsunami evacuation zones.

Early reports suggest at least five people have been killed and millions have been evacuated from the nearby Chilean coast, as Tsunami warnings spread around the Pacific.

The fact that four seats in Florida, all held by Republicans, could flip to the Democratic side should be recognized as a tsunami in political terms.

He was coordinating phone canvassing as a tsunami crashed through Labour politics, with new members signing up in droves — for full membership, or as «registered supporters», who paid # 3 to get a leadership vote.

Thanks JB — always good to get the glass half full viewpoint on here as well as the tsunami of glass half empty ones.

Such maps can help monitor natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes.

«Severe sea states, such as tsunamis, rogue waves, storms, landslides, and even meteorite fall, can all generate acoustic - gravity waves,» Kadri says.

People who participate in social activities in their community are more likely to plan and prepare for future disasters, such as tsunamis, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Unlike other large waves, such as tsunamis or rogue waves, these rollers, called internal waves, do not ride the ocean surface.

Although the feasibility of influencing the occurrence of natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes is negligible, it is possible for people to act against climate change.

The ridges in coral reefs act as barriers and can reduce wave energy by up to 97 %, providing crucial protection from threats such as tsunamis.

These processes release gravitational potential energy and can produce impulsive large - amplitude surface - gravity waves known as tsunamis (a term derived from the Japanese language).

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

Case in point: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers recently concluded that a small six - foot - high miniature tsunami that hit near a New Jersey nuclear power plant this summer was not the result of a seismic event (as tsunamis usually are).

Property belonging to residents of the islands is at risk for earthquake damage as well as the tsunamis and floods that often accompany quakes.

Not exact matches

But a more important question is how we as a society feel about the impact of the entire online tsunami on society overall.

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

As horrific as the tolls from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — or those from the tsunamis in Japan (2011) and the Indian Ocean (2004)-- were, Galea reveals how the social context in each affected region transformed the population's health, in ways good and bad, for years afterwarAs horrific as the tolls from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — or those from the tsunamis in Japan (2011) and the Indian Ocean (2004)-- were, Galea reveals how the social context in each affected region transformed the population's health, in ways good and bad, for years afterwaras the tolls from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — or those from the tsunamis in Japan (2011) and the Indian Ocean (2004)-- were, Galea reveals how the social context in each affected region transformed the population's health, in ways good and bad, for years afterward.

The 2011 tsunami spurred some of this change, as the harder - hit companies had to slash costs to survive.

It would be easy to dismiss this as the latest boomlet in an industry famous for its cycles, were it not for a demographic tidal wave — the so - called silver tsunami — that has already begun: The retirement of America's 76 million baby boomers.

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

Voice communication technology may be shot for a while after a major event such as a magnitude 9.0 earthquake followed by tsunami.

They found that dramatic gaffes made little difference to these voters, as the miscues were lost amid the tsunami of general campaign coverage.

Chen went on to say he had helped over two million people with his philanthropy and had donated money after natural disasters such as the 2010 Japanese Tsunami or the Haitian earthquake from the same year.

There's a lot of other debris in there too, and as much as 20 % is thought to come from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

As of this writing, there have not been any reports of damage or tsunami warnings, but the earthquake hit at 2:37 a.m. local time, and the story is still developing.

As a result, if you hurry, you can jump ahead of them and deliver valuable and truly differentiated products and services to a marketplace that is ready, willing, and able to buy anything that makes economic sense — and that makes common sense out of the tsunami of meaningless data that they're swimming in right now.

I've been honored to work with him, and the partnership of DFJ is handling this as well as they possibly can in facing a tsunami of interest.

Maybe our wise and patriotic politicians will start selling off our military assets just like they did with our manufacturing base so they can pay the tsunami of interest on our debt and China will take over as the world's police?

The tsunami disaster is unlikely to have a major impact on aggregate GDP in the Asian region but will reduce growth in the short term in Indonesia and Thailand, as well as in some smaller economies on the Indian Ocean rim.

The Stock Market Crash of October 1987 is indelible in the minds of most veteran investors as a «Financial Tsunami» that came out of nowhere — which rocked Wall Street to its foundations.

While it is too early to assess the economic cost of the south Asian tsunami fully, at this stage the overall impact on GDP is expected to be limited as the major population and industrial centres were largely undamaged.

Download this issue as a PDF In 2011 the Japanese city of Miyako was destroyed by the Tsunami created by the Tōhoku earthquake.

Just as the arguments for higher cost structures in other industries have been washed away by the internet tsunami (go ask retailers or content providers), so too will the arguments for premium pricing for institutional trades succumb to the inevitable erosion.

Japan's stock market nose - dived nearly 11 percent, leading world markets sharply lower on Tuesday, as an escalating nuclear crisis threatened to compound the devastation from last week's earthquake and tsunami.

Then there's the matter of the inevitable tsunami — with waves as high as 50 feet roaring on shore, reaching miles inland — that comes afterward.