Sentences with phrase «for tsunami»

We will then be transported by helicopter to the city of Banda Aceh, which was «ground zero» for the tsunami and is located on the northern end of Sumatra.

My suggestion is to get a firm grip and prepare for the tsunami of change to clean up the business.

«I want to raise at least $ 100,000 for tsunami relief in the next three months — to be given to Save the Children — on behalf of small - firm lawyers everywhere.»

It's not that all BigLaw firms are sitting on their hands and waiting for the tsunami.

The California Seismic Safety Commission has delivered lumps of coal to state government preparedness for a tsunami, reports J. Craig Williams.

Another important article, «Japanese Rules for Nuclear Plants Relied on Old Science,» shows how efforts to safeguard nuclear plants in Japan lagged way behind science pointing to the need to account for tsunami damage and flooding.

Evidence from Oregon, one of the states most vulnerable to great earthquakes, points out the challenge of moving from such logic, on paper, to investments in vulnerable schools or coastal communities in the inundation zone for the tsunami that will accompany the next great thrust of the Cascadia fault off the Northwest Coast.

Please also visit the website of Geohazards International, which has helped develop effective, affordable designs for tsunami evacuation «parks» in high - risk cities.

The simulation was produced by the same National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility in Seattle (NOAA / PMEL / Center for Tsunami Research) that raced to calculate where the tsunami from the great Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 would exact its worst toll.

Japan's horror reveals how thin is the edge we live on Climate change may not be responsible for the tsunami, but it is shrinking our margin of safety.

One indispensable and thankless Unesco task is organizing tsunami warnings systems and pushing for tsunami education on risky shores around the world.

Also in 2005, Lucy Hodgson's exhibition, «Undercurrents» donated sales proceeds to Mercy Corps for Tsunami Victim Aid.

Ask your hotel in Bali for the tsunami preparation procedures.

The same goes for the tsunami of ebook crap flooding my recommendations on Amazon, usually amateurish and derivative «military SF.»

We had a fundraiser for tsunami victims where people could buy a button, and, if they had the button, they could wear a hat on that day.

For example, we are still arguing about what the Japanese communities could have done better to prepare for the tsunami.

It's not a terrible movie, and it's almost worth watching for the tsunami recreation, alone.

«Realizing The Impossible» (5:54) focuses on production, specifically the use of real dirty waves and one - third scale models instead of CGI for the tsunami scenes.

So what accounts for the tsunami of tears on social media, which, during last year's flood, may have been one of many factors that contributed to Moonlight's triumph at the Academy Awards?

All hopes for tsunami drama The Impossible seem to rest entirely on the raw intensity of Naomi Watts, and she's also a safe bet for a nomination.

AWFJ Award for Humanitarian Activism Sandra Bullock (for tsunami relief) Elaine Hendrix (for Animal Rescue Corps and In Defense of Animals) Angelina Jokie (for UN work and making «In the Land of Blood and Honey» to raise awareness about genocide) Elizabeth Taylor (for her work with AIDS) Olivia Wilde (for relief work in Haiti)

I've been recently exploring the wonders of digital scrapbooking, so today I wanted to share the last few layouts I created for Tsunami's My Life album!

For the first time during the hurricane, PRSN took over as the tsunami warning focal point for Puerto Rico on the west side of the island, acting as the central point of contact for tsunami and other coastal hazards.

In their study, the researchers used two different modeling codes: one for the earthquake and one for the tsunami.

Looking for tsunami records in a sea cave was not something that would have occurred to Horton, and he says Daly's professional generosity — archaeologists are careful about who gets near their digs — and his own and Rubin's openness to insights from other disciplines made the research possible.

The ruddy font of photons gilds the marble floor, streaming past the juggler balancing a club on his forehead, the volunteer collecting for tsunami relief, the girl learning to ride a unicycle, the doorway to a nanotechnology lab, the hiding place where Mystery Hunt's coin was found behind a fire hose, as hundreds of students, heading both east and west, follow the path of light.

This gave the researchers «particular concern» for tsunami hazard there, so they decided to investigate their original finding further using numerical modeling techniques.

No need for $ 11 million for tsunami warning, it says — it will keep only one warning center open and eliminate support for preparedness and innovation research.

There needs to be one hell of an Earthquake for that tsunami to happen mate.

However, that is exactly what Alexander saw on her cell phone at 7:04 this morning: an alert for a tsunami warning in Nueces County from 8 to 9 a.m.

He is controlling to the point of determining who lives and who dies, and He is to blame for tsunamis, earthquakes, diseases, famines, and wars.

Seismic data collection, warning / evacuation plans for tsunamis / quakes?

«An important next thing to do is to look for evidence for tsunamis elsewhere in the Hawaiian island chain,» said Witter.

The proposal includes plans to upgrade an existing network of tidal gauges and seismographs in the Caribbean as well as to educate communities particularly at risk for tsunamis.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

The same goes for tsunamis, he adds.

BPBD Bali head Dewa Made Indra said the agency had cooperated with hotel associations to ensure that hotels were prepared for tsunamis.

This leaves 20 minutes or less, depending on location, to implement and complete evacuations — a long time compared to the 30 minutes or so it takes for tsunamis to cause havoc in nearby coastlines.

Warning times for tsunamis generated close to shore need to reduced, and more basic science is needed to better understand «stealth earthquakes,» which produce larger tsunamis but with less shaking than expected.

Warning times have been reduced for tsunamis coming from distant earthquake centers.

A recent study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that Connecticut, New York and even Massachusetts are at risk for tsunamis due to a quake originating from a deep trench off Puerto Rico.

Not exact matches

From dealing with political instability to the 2004 tsunami, Thailand's well - known entrepreneur Bill Heinecke revealed his recipe for tackling adversity in an interview on «Managing Asia» in 2012.

No tsunami warning was issued for Indonesia, which is located in the earthquake - prone Ring of Fire.

As horrific as the tolls from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — or those from the tsunamis in Japan (2011) and the Indian Ocean (2004)-- were, Galea reveals how the social context in each affected region transformed the population's health, in ways good and bad, for years afterward.

With more than a decade of experience, Akiko has covered some of the biggest stories across Asia and the U.S. Prior to joining CNBC, Akiko was a Tokyo - based correspondent for ABC News, where she led network coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

«The legal tsunami Valeant has created could loom for years to come considering the number of serious federal probes investigating virtually all of Valeant's business practices, not to mention civil lawsuits quickly piling up,» she wrote in a report.

It would be easy to dismiss this as the latest boomlet in an industry famous for its cycles, were it not for a demographic tidal wave — the so - called silver tsunami — that has already begun: The retirement of America's 76 million baby boomers.

In fact, most areas in the affected zone would be able to ride out a high - magnitude earthquake and would be out of the way of the tsunami expected to follow, according to Bill Steele, director of outreach and communications for the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

Voice communication technology may be shot for a while after a major event such as a magnitude 9.0 earthquake followed by tsunami.

According to The Society for Human Resource Management, the «Silver Tsunami» is well underway.The cohort of workers 45 to 64 is growing faster than any other generation, and the economy is already grappling with two retirements for every new entrant in the workforce.