Sentences with phrase «big tsunami»

Thankfully, there was no big tsunami this time.

The boat we use for this trip is Mr. Wolf or Big Tsunami.

Then my stay was cut short when we had the big Tsunami disaster in Japan, so we finished my final scenes and I caught the first flight home.

«We always build a warning center after a big tsunami.

The VTM correlates disturbances in these fields with pressure changes to detect how big a tsunami is and where it is headed.

When Japan's next big tsunami inevitably rolls in, it could find people — and robots — ready to meet it.

And at their meeting in February, they also considered geologic evidence that a big tsunami in 869 C.E. had swept several kilometers inland across the same coastal plain inundated in March.

A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.

«At least five big tsunamis have hit in 2,000 years in Cascadia,» Ward says.

«The basic conclusion, then, appears to be that big tsunamis vary in recurrence [time], from only 60 years to about 2000 years,» Sieh writes in an e-mail.

Two far bigger tsunamis stand out in the last 10 years for having caused especially widespread destruction.

Given the number of other crowded spots around the world, from the Pacific Northwest to the Caribbean to other parts of Indonesia, sit atop long - slumbering faults known to generate big tsunamis, hopefully the message from northeastern Japan will not fade.

The tsunami that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958 was 520 m (1,710 ft) high and is the biggest tsunami ever measured, almost 90 m (300 ft) taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago and about 110 m (360 ft) taller than the former World Trade Center in New York.

the cause of the accident is the fact that the geopgysicist community (source SciAm in french version) in the 70s was feelin that this could not happens where it happend, because the rift / break (correct me, I'm alien) was supposed to glide nicely with small earthquake, and quakeless glide (assumed because ther was difference between earthequake constraints relaxed, and total constraint created by usual move)... after that, people discover that ther have been big tsunamis, big earthquake, and that the theory may be false... but the power plant was built on a pretend safe place, and not beeing sure of the new theory, not much was done to anticipate a huge tsunami.

Not exact matches

With more than a decade of experience, Akiko has covered some of the biggest stories across Asia and the U.S. Prior to joining CNBC, Akiko was a Tokyo - based correspondent for ABC News, where she led network coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

Put you in charge, and the Muslim tsunami in America will become the next North Korea, too big and too well armed, and too organized to tell them where to get off!!

And observers wondered if the governor had also shot himself in the foot with the Republicans, already under pressure after big GOP losses in the most recent elections, potentially spurred by an anti-Trump wave that could become a tsunami in 2018.

This past Election Day, all three statewide incumbents were easily re-elected, the Assembly's Democratic majority got bigger, but consistent with the overall Republican political tsunami seen across the nation, the Republicans took back control of the state Senate and picked up some New York Congressional seats.

The slow - motion foreign - cash tsunami that swept over the city during Mike Bloomberg's latter years endures — guaranteeing de Blasio dough to buy labor peace and arming him with the big bucks needed to keep the city's legion of special - interest pleaders at bay.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

The short answer is they didn't look far enough back in geologic time to see that quakes and tsunamis just this big had indeed occurred there before.

But if by the Big One they mean the earthquake that will wreak havoc over the widest geographic area, that could destroy the most critical infrastructure, that could send a train of tsunamis across the Pacific causing economic mayhem that would probably last a decade or more — then the seismic demon to blame could not possibly be the San Andreas.

DEVASTATING DISASTERS The magnitude 9.1 earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit the island of Sumatra (shown) in Indonesia in 2004 was one of the world's first truly global disasters, argues seismologist Lucy Jones in her new book, The Big Ones.

«Our biggest concern today is the continued potential for earthquakes that can also result in tsunamis,» says Enkelmann.

The biggest marine landslide ever recorded happened 7,200 years ago off the coast of Norway, and there was a tsunami, but it was a far cry from leaving deposits 200 meters above sea level,» Bryant says.

It was one of the biggest and deadliest tsunamis in recorded history.

Yet some combination of factors made the Tohoku - Oki earthquake bigger and with a more deadly tsunami than scientists expected.

A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the occurrence of these big, destructive quakes and associated devastating tsunamis may be linked to compact sediments along large portions of the subduction zone.

So I guess it is something like if you see the seas recede, it doesn't mean the ocean is getting smaller, it means a tsunami or another big wave is getting ready to hit the shores..

But not all big earthquakes set off major tsunamis.

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But there's a big difference between a movie content to surf a tsunami of nostalgia, and science fiction sturdy enough to invent tomorrow's nostalgia, today.

Sounds like a perfect job for Spanish director J.A. Bayona, whose feature debut was the horror film «The Orphanage,» but who proved he could handle big - screen disasters with the tsunami - themed «The Impossible.»

Written by «The Queen» scribe Peter Morgan, «Hereafter» incorporates real - world events into its fictional story, including Eastwood's biggest filming challenge: The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.

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A collapse or giant rockslide crashing into the water would create a tsunami big enough to wipe out the town.

The biggest point of contention is whether the tsunami of swill harms professional writers (and let's use part of your definition which is 5000 units of real sales).

And this is one of those «carefully curated» works that are supposed to rise above the «tsunami of swill» and demonstrate why agents / big publishers / editors / big publishers are so very necessary...

As a result, the biggest competition to all current authors for digital shelf space has come, not from a flood of self - published books, but from a tsunami of books by dead authors that aren't going away anytime soon.

Alas, too few Big Publishers are interested in spotting new talent and most seem to continue to rely on literary agents who are quite literally snowed under by a tsunami of queries (I don't envy then, tough job...)

But at the other end of the spectrum, in the floating world, investors are increasingly risk - agnostic about buying the biggest & best blue - chips — which are the primary beneficiaries of a world awash in a central bank tsunami of liquidity & quantitative easing.

It's great to be up on the hill, out of the tsunami inundation zone, just in case the really big one happens — and the house is just a two minute drive from fabulous ocean views, beaches, and hikes.

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2011 Spann, Maria, My space: Yinka Shonibare, artist, tells us how and where he works, The Times, 10 December 2011 Singh, Anita, Museum campaign to buy Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, The Telegraph, 1 December 2011 Kennedy, Maev, Message in a big bottle — appeal to save fourth plinth HMS Victory, The Guardian, 30 November 2011 Jury, Louise, Setting Sail Again, London Evening Standard, 30 November 2011 Shaw, Anny, Flags of Freedom, The Art Newspaper Art Basel Daily Edition, 14 June, p. 10 2011 Wallis, William, Anger as black artist's pieces held, The Financial Times, 28 May, p. 6 2011 Olurin, Titilayo, A Revolution in the Studio, next, 1 May 2011 Alakam, Japhet, Art - inculating Yinka Shonibare's Hope in Hopelessness, Vanguard, 1 May 2011 Greenstreet, Rosanna, Q&A: Yinka Shonibare, The Guardian, 30 April 2011 Coxhead, Gabriel, Exhibition of the Week, Time Out, 7 — 3 April, p. 52 2011 Shaw, Anny, Yinka Shonibare Fires all Cannons in Madrid, The Art Newspaper, 15 March 2011 Wullschlager, Jackie, I Know Something About Love, Financial Times, 12 March 2011 Adamson, Glen, Issues / Commentary: Tsunami Africa, Art in America, March, pp. 67 - 72 2011 Jarque, Fietta, Como Artista, Tienes que ser el Mejor Menitroso, El Pais, 5 February, pp.17 - 18 2011 Alvarado, Esther, Un ano de exposiciones, Madrid Press, February.

So I guess it is something like if you see the seas recede, it doesn't mean the ocean is getting smaller, it means a tsunami or another big wave is getting ready to hit the shores..

Oakley Brooks, a journalist whose focus is the Pacific Rim and who wrote «Tsunami Alert: Beating Asia's Next Big One,» told me about one long - distance link between Palestinian geopolitics and Asian geophysical threats.

This is an extraordinarily important failure of a nuclear plant and the inadequate design — which utterly discounted tsunami risks, for instance — raises big questions about how best to manage the world's aging fleet of older nuclear plants — including the one here on the Hudson River — going forward.

One pattern: Villages tended to be situated on the coast, for the convenience of easy access to marine resources, until some year when the seismically active region was rocked by a big quake and tsunami.