Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate
caused widespread damage across the Gulf Coast, and devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Most of these recorded quakes were of a low to moderate intensity, but they still
caused widespread damage.
The earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and
caused widespread damage to pipes, walls and furniture.
In April, five catastrophes at different localities
caused widespread damage due to wind, tornadoes and hail in many of high operating states.
In the US, this year's severe drought has raised food prices and in India the disruption to the monsoon has
caused widespread damage to farmers.
The two strongest El Niños in the last 30 years — 1982 - 83 and 1997 - 98 —
both caused widespread damage from flooding in California.
Yet even extreme weather, such as that which
caused widespread damage in coffee - producing economies in the late 1990s as a result of El Nino don't seem to have affected coffee production.
Massive fires have created headlines and
caused widespread damage from Siberia to Alaska to the Northwest Territories to Alberta recently, all part of a trend of increased fire activity unheard of in the boreal forest over the past 10,000 years.
Massive fires have created headlines and
caused widespread damage from
LONDON, 19 March — Extreme storm events on the scale of Hurricane Katrina which
caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 will occur far more often because of climate change, a new study says.
In Carter's fateful words, «It's not a matter of if there's a major earthquake, it's a matter of when there's a major earthquake» (less than two years later an earthquake near Christchurch killed 184 people and
caused widespread damage).
According to Reuters, Hurricane Irma killed four people in the U.S. Virgin Islands and
caused widespread damage to infrastructure.
Now, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other members of the Texas delegation are requesting federal assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which has
caused widespread damage and flooding in Houston and other parts of the state.
Large meteorological events often drive lookups, and this year provided several big events to track: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria, all of which
caused widespread damage to the southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean.
Category four Cyclone Debbie hit northeastern Australia on Tuesday between Bowen and Airlie Beach ripping up trees and
causing widespread damage that is still being assessed.
The mayor compared holding the marathon Sunday — less than a week after the storm hit
causing widespread damage — to then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decision to hold the event after the Sept. 11 attacks.
On the first global map of earthquake hazards, pink and red signal a more than 10 % chance of ground accelerations exceeding 25 % of the force of gravity within the next 50 years — high enough to
cause widespread damage to buildings.
Such an earthquake will
cause widespread damage to structures, transportation and utilities, as well as economic and social disruption in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay).
Unlike blunt force trauma, where damage / injury is usually localised to one area of the brain, blasts create a shockwave that affects the whole brain —
causing widespread damage.
But a few have been big enough to damage buildings, and now USGS says that it can't rule out the possibility of a magnitude - 7 temblor, which would
cause widespread damage.
They said that any supernova located beyond this would not
cause widespread damage on Earth, but could still seed the planet with the substance of life.
AGEs
cause widespread damage to tissues through inflammation and linking itself to collagen.
The storm battered the Riviera Maya for nearly three days with winds of up to 130mph,
causing widespread damage.
Irma comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey smashed ashore in Texas, knocking offline almost a quarter of U.S. oil refining capacity and
causing widespread damage, power outages and flooding.
The focus was on extreme weather events that occur on a seasonal timescale, and specifically on the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 which occurred during the wettest autumn ever recorded,
causing widespread damage and an estimated insured loss of # 1.3 billion.
A larger number of simulations for each of the Industrial and Non-Industrial Autumn 2000 climates were completed.The focus was particularly on the United Kingdom Autumn 2000 floods because, aside from
causing widespread damage, they occurred during the wettest autumn since records began in 1766.
That said, the scientists themselves are urging caution, saying it's too early to firmly conclude that these plumes are
causing widespread damage.
In the spring, severe storms often deliver large hail and even occasional tornadoes,
causing widespread damage to local homes.
Hurricanes are major catastrophes in South Carolina, but there are many other kinds of storms that can
cause widespread damage.
The fast - moving fires that are blasting through multiple counties ignited on last Sunday night and intensified due to heat, low humidity and wind,
causing widespread damage of catastrophic proportions.
Not exact matches
While strong winds can rip shingles off roofs and tear down power lines, flooding often
causes more
widespread, costlier
damage — and can be more dangerous for humans.
President Donald Trump's nuclear posture review, leaked to HuffPost this month, seems to show the US believes Russia is building a dangerous new undersea nuclear weapon that critics say could
cause widespread death and
damage.
However, in what will be a controversial statement, they found that, «a large oil spill would not
cause permanent,
widespread damage to the environment.»
In addition to monsoons, the state also experiences wildfires which can
cause widespread evacuations and home
damage.
Hurricane Irma sideswiped Puerto Rico on Sept. 6, leaving more than 1 million people without power but
causing no deaths or
widespread damage like it did on nearby islands.
The trio of hurricanes come after Hurricane Harvey brought
widespread destruction to the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, estimated by AccuWeather to have
caused damage of up to $ 190 billion.
In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could
cause «serious and
widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have
caused unprecedented and
widespread devastation, forcing thousands of people out of
damaged homes and communities in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally
causing lasting property
damage, civilian deaths, and
widespread fear.
Cadmium (Cd) is a
widespread environmental and occupational pollutant that has emerged as a major
cause of pathobiochemical events and
damage in a number of organs.
Sometimes, combinations can
cause a fever or convulsions, but do not result in any
widespread damage (6).
Furthermore, Article 8 (2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court criminalizes «intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will
cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or
damage to civilian objects or
widespread, long - term and severe
damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated.»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signaled he will send more resources and state personnel to Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover from
widespread damage caused by Hurricane Maria.
CSEA President Danny Donohue said union members should follow all appropriate safety guidelines as they recover from the storm, which
caused widespread flooding,
damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure and downed trees and power lines.
This suggests
widespread problems beyond the specific site of
damage, which may
cause problems for communication in the whole system, not only in networks that have specific
damage,» Sandberg said.
And geologists now say that such induced earthquakes could potentially be large, up to magnitude 7, which is big enough to
cause buildings to collapse and
widespread damage.
Conventional transplant conditioning employs radiation and / or high - dose cytotoxic drugs (also known as alkylators) to destroy the bone marrow and blood and immune cells; it also
causes widespread cellular
damage throughout the body.
At the same time, avoiding radiation and alkylators — which
cause widespread cellular
damage throughout the body — should reduce the risk of long - term HSCT - related complications, such as organ failure and cancer.
Untreated gonorrhea can
cause widespread organ
damage, pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.
These stroke - related alterations in the cervical spinal cord indicate pervasive and long - lasting BSCB
damage that would severely affect spinal cord function, wrote the researchers, adding that the
widespread microvascular impairment in the gray and white matter of the cervical spinal cord aggravated motor neuron deterioration and had the potential to
cause motor dysfunction.