Sentences with phrase «deaths in the tsunami»

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The tsunami in Southeast Asia brought instant death to thousands of people.

Four days after a tsunami hit some of the smaller islands in Indonesia, the death toll has risen to 413, with nearly 300 people still missing.

Which is no small thing, truly, but cold comfort in the face of holocausts or tsunamis, the deaths of parents or children.

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

The tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused the equivalent of one month of children's pneumonia deaths in the world.

Death tolls for close - in tsunamis could be lower if their true sizes can be determined earlier, perhaps via offshore sensor networks

Only a handful of deaths have occurred in far field tsunamis since the 2004 Sumatra tsunami.

And the bodies illustrate another, more troubling truth: the evacuation center itself became a death trap, as many of those huddling in the basement perished in a tsunami - like swirl of water.

To what extent the system would have reduced the death toll from the 2004 tsunami is hard to tell, says Emile Okal, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

According to the report, women and girls accounted for 90 percent of deaths from a 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh, and about 80 percent of deaths from the 2004 Asian tsunami.

And, in a natural disaster such as a flood, hurricane or tsunami, connecting people via functioning bridges can mean the difference between life and death during the event itself.

As an American surgeon, it is no longer hard for me to distrust our own medical literature and cast it aside, when in our clinics, you see a tsunami of illness and death coming into your office daily and you just can not explain it based upon what we all learned in medical school.

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Working from an original script by Peter Morgan («The Queen,» «Frost / Nixon»), the film follows the odysseys of three individuals touched by death and in profound ways: a reluctant medium (Matt Damon) in San Francisco who can commune with the afterlife but finds it a curse rather than a gift, a French journalist (Cecile de France) who survives a near - death experience (a harrowing recreation of the 2004 tsunami) and a British schoolboy (George and Frankie McLaren) feeling adrift after the death of this twin brother.

Characters fall to their deaths, are engulfed in flames and drown in a huge tsunami that floods the city.

They call it a beach, but in truth there is nothing of the sort since a tsunami ripped through the village in 2006, causing hundreds of deaths and washing away what little there was of the sand.

Human Mask was partially shot on a drone camera in Fukushima in 2011 after the earthquake - triggered tsunami had caused the meltdown of three nuclear plant reactors, the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area and at least 1,600 deaths; the sense of desolation is palpable.

For Control Room (2011) Demand used a photograph of the inside of Japan's Fukishima Daiichi power plant, which became known to the world after a devastating earthquake and tsunami left the nuclear plant badly damaged in 2011; Demand's Junior Suite (2012) is based on a photograph that was originally posted on the celebrity news website TMZ shortly after Whitney Houston's death, which showed the singer's last room service meal in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Had these processes not tampered with the growth of the 2004 tsunami, the death toll would had been in the millions.

Further, in 2004 there was little understanding among the lay public and emergency professionals worldwide about how quickly tsunamis spread death and destruction to distant lands.

Authorities in Chile are scrambling to come up with a reason for why this is happening, but nobody appears to be quite sure what is causing this tsunami of death.

Judy Curry, for example, observed that climate change results in both «winners and losers», calling for much improved efforts to analyse regional change, while deploring the fact that «most of the effort undertaken seems to be attempting to sell spurious links between death and destruction from tornados, tsunamis, etc to climate change.»

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.