Sentences with phrase «by huge tsunamis»
If even a small proportion of the methane they produce is released, we might be overwhelmed by huge tsunamis, runaway global warming, and extinctions.
http://discovermagazine.com/ Not exact matches
I'm guessing the day (21st) will start with a huge solar flare, followed by various earthquakes, tsunami's & general natural disasterish happenings....
In the days and weeks ahead, huge numbers of Japanese will be turning to their country's religious traditions as they mourn the thousands of dead and try to muster the strength and resources to rebuild amid the massive destruction wrought by last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.
If there was a huge meteor impact in the indian ocean by a comet, it would create a humongous tsunami that would sweep miles inland....
While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one - two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami — a disaster unlikely to occur in many locations — it revealed technical and institutional weaknesses that must be fixed around the world.
However, this study has provided proof - of - concept that devastating tsunamis could be mitigated by using acoustic - gravity waves to redistribute the huge amounts of energy stored within the wave, potentially saving lives and billions of pounds worth of damage.»
The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake and tsunami were remarkable in many regards, including the rupturing of shallow trench sediments with huge associated slip (see the Perspective by Wang and Kinoshita).
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.