Sentences with phrase «causing 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.

In the spring, severe storms often deliver large hail and even occasional tornadoes, causing widespread damage to local homes.

That said, the scientists themselves are urging caution, saying it's too early to firmly conclude that these plumes are causing widespread damage.

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.

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.

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 storm battered the Riviera Maya for nearly three days with winds of up to 130mph, causing widespread damage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

According to Reuters, Hurricane Irma killed four people in the U.S. Virgin Islands and caused widespread damage to infrastructure.

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).

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.

Massive fires have created headlines and caused widespread damage from

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.

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.

The two strongest El Niños in the last 30 years — 1982 - 83 and 1997 - 98 — both caused widespread damage from flooding in California.

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.

In April, five catastrophes at different localities caused widespread damage due to wind, tornadoes and hail in many of high operating states.

The earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and caused widespread damage to pipes, walls and furniture.

Hurricanes are major catastrophes in South Carolina, but there are many other kinds of storms that can cause widespread damage.

Most of these recorded quakes were of a low to moderate intensity, but they still caused widespread damage.

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate caused widespread damage across the Gulf Coast, and devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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.