Sentences with phrase «foot tsunami»

Exactly how much «disaster memory» does it take to know that a 30 - foot tsunami will breach a 12 - foot sea wall?

Biak residents had reason to regret the geologic novelty: the February quake and the resulting 20 - foot tsunami killed 100 and washed away more than 600 homes.

She and Woodruff tried using one of the most widely - cited models for the 1707 Nankai Trough earthquake to flood Lake Ryuuoo, but this only generated a six - foot tsunami that came nowhere near overtopping the 13 - foot barrier beach.

Not exact matches

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

Then there's the matter of the inevitable tsunami — with waves as high as 50 feet roaring on shore, reaching miles inland — that comes afterward.

The new Gender Architecture - a giant with clay feet standing on sand, not on the firm ground of reality and what is good for the human person, will sooner or later collapse, even if now, it seems virtually impossible to escape the cultural, political and anthropological tsunami it will inevitably provoke.

None of the above will happen to Arsenal who are still billed to finish 1st on the table and lift the title trophy with Leicester and Spurs looking helpless, hopeless and dejected and unable to do anything to stop the football tsunami that have swept them off their feet from this weekend which wno» t abate until the end of this BPL season.

And observers wondered if the governor had also shot himself in the foot with the Republicans, already under pressure after big GOP losses in the most recent elections, potentially spurred by an anti-Trump wave that could become a tsunami in 2018.

Scientists predict the boundary layer — a mix of original peak ring materials, tsunami deposits and melted rocks that fell from the sky — should span hundreds of feet.

The maps are based largely upon the 1946 tsunami, which followed a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands and caused water to rise only two and a half meters (8 feet) up the side of the Makauwahi sinkhole.

When the Chile earthquake struck, Song's system showed that an underwater fault had slipped almost 10 feet, potentially enough to produce a tsunami several yards high.

As for matching the Lake Ryuuoo geologic record, she adds, «Our model earthquake scenarios showed the Bungo Channel region subsiding seven feet and lowering Lake Ryuuoo's barrier beach from 13 to six feet, such that a tsunami with a feasible height for an inland region easily flooded the lake.»

His reports have originated from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing during the SARS epidemic, the center of Greenland, the Amazon rain forest, the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (for a story on tuberculosis) and Japan to cover the nuclear aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

And then the wave came: a tsunami, taller than 20 feet (six meters), broke over the city.

Cascading lava slammed into the ocean, destroying all aquatic life in its path, and creating tsunamis nearly fifteen feet high which swept away everything within their reach.

«The important thing to remember is that these tsunamis can erode the beach up to 360 feet inland,» Simms said.

The ensuing cataclysm sent a series of 600 - foot - high tsunamis crashing against the world's coastlines and injected plumes of superheated water vapor and aerosol particulates into the atmosphere.

The presence of this chaotic deposit suggested that the tsunami was at least three or four meters [10 to 13 feet] at the shoreline.»

While a magnitude - 8 quake might cause a 32 - foot (10 - meter) tsunami, Stein said, a magnitude - 9 could cause a tsunami twice as tall.

There is a 1 - in - 4,000 chance that the asteroid will hit Earth in 2880, Space.com reported, citing a 2003 study, which suggested that if 1950 DA crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, the blast could pack enough energy to trigger 200 - foot - high tsunami waves.

His most recent tsunami test cloak measures 2 meters (more than 6 feet) across.

In contrast to more common shallow and deep earthquakes, a subduction zone quake will generate a destructive tsunami, a series of waves up to 30 feet (10 m) high that will hit the Cascadia coast and travel across the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska, Hawaii and Asia.

If you're worried that Jenna is reeling from the tsunami of publicity crashing at her feet, think again.

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It's been over a month since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami struck off the coast of Japan, but automakers continue to struggle to get back on their feet.

The tsunami was triggered by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska, and waves as high as 27 feet hit the Pacific Northwest coastline.

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After the tsunami every game giant over in japan has been attempting to bounce back why not step forward on your best foot so to speak?

(For instance, in 1933 a tsunami more than 90 feet high erased coastal villages along part of the same stretch of Honshu coast devastated on March 11.)

The tsunami of last year killed an estimated 110,000 Laysan and Black - Footed albatross chicks, which means bumper seasons for new chicks are needed more than ever.

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed an estimated 110,000 Laysan and black - footed albatross chicks — about 22 percent of this year's young — at Midway Atoll, where more than two - thirds of the world's Laysan albatross nest.

«Global warming may not only be causing more destructive hurricanes, it could also be shaking the ground beneath our feet» — How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes World news The Guardian

Case in point: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers recently concluded that a small six - foot - high miniature tsunami that hit near a New Jersey nuclear power plant this summer was not the result of a seismic event (as tsunamis usually are).

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.

The March 2011, 8.9 - magnitude quake off the coast of Japan that caused a tsunami, waves that reached California within twelve hours, moved the island of Japan by about eight feet, and shifted the Earth on its axis by about four inches, this is an example of the magnitude of natural forces — mostly unappreciated by humanity — that are continuously shaping Earth's climate.

The Tohuku tsunami created waves 133 ft high, but by the time they reached our house at the edge of Monterey Bay (the one with the carpeted living room) they were down to a couple of feet.

About 110,000 Laysan and black - footed albatross chicks were killed by the tsunami and two severe winter storms on January 14th and February 11th.

The plant was protected by a tsunami wall that could handle waves up to 18.7 feet high.

There was a sense of gathering momentum, of the tide being drawn out from under our feet and a large costs tsunami forming on the horizon.