Sentences with phrase «by debris on»

The building was lacerated by debris on 9/11 that left its interior exposed to the elements for weeks.

The Philippines started to clear roads blocked by debris on Thursday as it reckoned up the cost of this week's powerful earthquake, with the death toll rising to at least 158.

Critics also contend that the recirculation of cooling water around the containment structure could be obstructed by debris on filtering screens in the unit.

Not exact matches

Assuming Falcon Heavy's launch isn't delayed by technical issues, bad weather, or errant boats (debris could rain over the Atlantic Ocean if the rocket blows up), lift - off should occur at 1:30 p.m. ET on February 6, though it could be as late as 4:30 p.m.

Search crews are still focusing on that general area; investigators have determined that the debris found on Reunion Island was probably carried there by currents.

«It's not impossible, but since the beginning of the Space Age... a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we're aware of who's been touched by a piece of space debris,» he said.

From donating desperately - needed supplies and funds, to pitching in with hands - on debris clean - up, to offering up space as emergency shelter and beyond, businesses heeded the call to help thousands of individuals displaced and otherwise affected by the devastating massive recent hurricanes and the floods they precipitated.

Consequent to the announcement of NASA that seven exoplanets have been discovered, a new study has argued that life forms on one planet can seed life in other planets by riding on space debris to reach other planets.

Felix Davilla, who works at the Yabucoa dump, poses for a portrait in front of debris dropped off by residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico on Sept. 29, 2017.

One of the leading organizations responding to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, in the immediate phase of emergency response, All Hands has multiple teams on the ground assessing devastated regions to identify where assistance is most needed, and clearing trees and debris so families can return to their homes.

Putting up a paid for billboard stating an atheist viewpoint is «pushing your belief on other people» Yet putting a piece of debris in the form of a tool of execution that has been used by a religion for centuries on display on government owned land using government money is somehow «not»?

But there was no one, apparently, that lost their eyesight by looking at it, or became depressed because there was a (shock) «Christian symbol» on the site... no one seemed to be offended by it... those people just kept working, working to save lives, clean up debris, and rebuild.

AZM compensates for such conditions as indicator or load cell drift or debris on a scale platform by electronically tracking out minor variations around zero.

It was at his Lowe's Motor Speedway, near Charlotte, that three spectators were killed and eight others injured by a flying tire and other debris during an IRL race on May 1.

The last match between them was actually ten years ago, when the game was marred by the death of Everton fan Bernard Murphy (an excellent article concerning this tragedy by Ian McDonald on ToffeeWeb can be found via this link) before the game as high winds battered the surrounding areas sending boarding and other debris around the site.

The front wheel can be easily lifted by putting downward pressure on the handlebar to get over road bumps and debris.

Maneuverability: Maneuverability is assessed by trained testers, taking into account how well each stroller, with a weight bag «passenger,» maneuvers on our course: in S - turns through cones, in narrow sections, on grass, dirt trails with tree roots and other debris, uphill, downhill and up and down curbs.

Early this morning, firefighters on Tweed Boulevard were treated by medical personnel for debris in their eyes and this afternoon medical crews are on their way back to Tweed Boulevard to treat an apparent victim of smoke inhalation.

The town said the last area being worked on by Hamburg's Highway Department is in the High / Best / Marie / Clark area, where brush and debris remain.

Commuter Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, 34, was killed by falling debris on the platform after Train 1614 barreled into the station on Sept. 29.

A view of some of the damage caused by flood waters at a home along Hall Street on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Rising waters came flowing in from behind the garage carrying debris into the driveway and yard.

«There are significant fire hazards and a blocked exit route caused by the construction,» it said, going on to point out that some exit routes are blocked by plastic sheeting, padlocked doors and debris.

Debris left on roadsides is often washed by rain and melted snow into local waterways through storm drains or blown directly into streams and lakes.

The largest and most mysterious resident of the debris belt between Mars and Jupiter is an icy world called Ceres, and it's on the threshold of being explored up close for the first time by NASA's Dawn mission, which is scheduled to enter Ceres's orbit on March 6.

This material gradually accumulates as debris and / or is knitted together by the continued growth of the attached forms living on the reef.

The theory is based on new analysis of xenon isotopes detected by scientists from the V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute in the Leningrad, four days after the accident, at Cherepovets, a city north of Moscow far from the major track of Chernobyl debris.

If sunlight must penetrate the dust covering a comet's water ice in order to warm it and produce jets, Sunshine says the Deep Impact findings suggest the ices on such dormant comets may not have run out but merely become sealed — by layers of debris, for example.

From simulations run by others, the researchers conclude that the optical and UV bursts likely originated from the collision of stellar debris on the outer perimeter of the black hole.

The researchers suggest that M. rainbowi could have dispersed the 10,000 kilometers from Africa to Australia by rafting on, for example, a large chunk of vegetation or debris that washed out to sea.

«Although there is a sort of sandblasting going on in space all of the time, both from man - made and natural debris, we've only had two operational spacecraft ever hit by man - made debris (that we know of) that sustained any major damage.»

Cassini also resolved a longstanding mystery about why one half of the moon's surface is 10 times as bright as the other: The leading hemisphere of the moon picks up dark debris that is warmed by the sun, while brighter ices condense on the colder, trailing hemisphere.

They hastily modified Quince, a survey droid on caterpillar treads that climbs stairs and debris, by equipping it with two cameras, a dosimeter, and a power and communications cable that stretched hundreds of meters.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

Unlike gullies caused by water flows on Earth and possibly on Mars, they do not have aprons of debris at the downhill end of the gully.

The USGS lost an opportunity to gather information on damage caused by the Colorado floods, including landslides, debris flows, and other activities.

The U.S. Air Force will be tracking UARS by radar on its way in, but even 2 hours before reentry, there will still be so much error in its prediction that the 800 - kilometer - long debris - strewn field could be anywhere along a 10,000 - kilometer - long track.

The cratering record on the moon provides a proxy for similar impacts by interplanetary debris such as comets and asteroids on Earth, the effects of which have largely been erased by billions of years of erosion and geologic activity.

Patients with «metal on metal» (MoM) artificial hips are at risk of complications caused by adverse reactions to metal debris (ARMD).

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

They hitched rides on debris swept up by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

The discovery was made by carrying out molecular analysis of materials previously thought to be of little interest — debris inside burial containers and residues on skeletal remains and plaster body casings.

Now, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers led by Kääb have used Earth - observing satellites to study the Tibetan region and collected samples of the debris to decipher why two historic avalanches happened on the same unlikely slopes within weeks of one another.

«These features on Vesta share many characteristics with those formed by debris flows on Earth and Mars,» Scully said.

A team of researchers has discovered that a near - Earth asteroid, included on NASA's list of potential threats to Earth, is composed of loosely - connected debris held together by forces that have not been seen on an asteroid before.

This talk will focus on our new discoveries with VLT / SPHERE of a beautiful two - armed spiral disk with a large gap (the third known of its kind) and an edge - on warped debris disk — similar to the warp induced by the planet in Beta Pic.

Building on these extreme examples that emphasize the potential roles played by healthy lysosomes in protecting neurons against the age - dependent accumulation of toxic cellular debris, we ultimately seek to understand how neurons sense and regulate the status of their lysosomes, how lysosomes are affected during age - related disease states and whether lysosomal function can be modulated for therapeutic purposes.

No matter what's causing turbulence on your flights, you can protect yourself from injury by choosing a window or middle seat to keep out of the path of debris falling from the overhead compartment.

EOS talk: «Extreme - AO Imaging of Disks around Intermediate - Mass Stars: Discovery of a Two - Armed Spiral Disk and a Warped Edge - on Debris Disk» by Kevin Wagner, grad student, Steward Observatory

A new meteor shower is on tap for the continental United States as the Earth passes through an old debris field left behind in the 1700's by Comet 209P / LINEAR.

The Umbrella Galaxy takes its name from a mysterious feature seen on the left here, that is now found to be debris from a tiny galaxy, only a 50th its size, shredded apart by gravity.