Sentences with phrase «foot tsunami wave»

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«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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