Sentences with phrase «from tsunami waves»

They typically last only 20 seconds or so before disappearing, and are different from tsunami waves that can travel great distances after being created by underwater earthquakes or landslides.

They are different from tsunami waves that can travel great distances after being created by underwater earthquakes or landslides.

Not exact matches

The quake's epicenter was 175 miles east of Kamaishi, and not far from the 9.0 - magnitude blast that sent tsunami waves racing toward Fukushima in 2011.

You use archeological and geological evidence to support your claim that a huge wave did rip through the middle east where noah was, the flood story evolved from that but then you have to deal with the issues of a tsunami large enough to reach noah from the indian ocean without destroying the entire world.

The ripples from Wesminster are being felt across the whole of the UK and through financial starvation, the removal of the rights of workers, pay freezes and pay reductions and increased pension costs those ripples are turning into the waves of a destructive of tsunami.

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.

Dr Usama Kadri, from Cardiff University's School of Mathematics, believes that lives could ultimately be saved by using acoustic - gravity waves (AGWs) against tsunamis that are triggered by earthquakes, landslides and other violent geological events.

Stefan Enoch at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France, and colleagues have shown that metamaterials could guide waves around offshore structures, protecting them from storms or tsunamis.

«We computed this tsunami - like wave with our numerical models and found its energy to be very similar to waves from past tsunamis in the Pacific,» says Roeber.

With memories of the tsunami that devastated the region in 2004 still fresh, residents fled from the coasts, not knowing whether waves were on their way.

Drawing on data streaming in from a multitude of sensors monitoring the world's water supply, for instance, the computer might learn to recognize changes in pressure, temperature, wave size and tides, then issue tsunami warnings, even though current science has yet to identify the constellation of variables associated with the monster waves.

Coming back from the field, I found out there wasn't a lot of information on what forces tsunamis impart on buildings, so we came up with a new type of tsunami generator to look at these waves.

It serves as a crucial link, relaying messages from an innovative tsunami detector thousands of meters below the waves to satellites overhead that broadcast a warning to people.

Within minutes, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center sounded the alarm, alerting coastal areas from Alaska to Mexico about the potential for a monster wave.

A new study of the hazards posed by impact - generated waves suggests that coastlines face substantial risks of being slammed by tsunamis from asteroid spla

Early results from NEPTUNE Canada include seismometer readings from the Chilean earthquake in February, and bottom - pressure sensor results that tracked the small tsunami waves it generated.

Judging from geological traces of two even older tsunami deposits, Koji Minoura, an Earth scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, and his colleagues proposed in 2001 that giant waves visit the region about every 800 - 1,100 years (K. Minoura et al..

Physical processes affecting human health include rough seas that threaten both small and large vessels; weather disturbances such as typhoons and hurricanes; rogue waves; and surges from storms and tsunamis.

The ridges in coral reefs act as barriers and can reduce wave energy by up to 97 %, providing crucial protection from threats such as tsunamis.

Tsunamis are huge and destructive waves that result from earthquakes on the ocean floors.

A flood is defined as «surface water, waves, including tidal wave and tsunami, tides, tidal water, overflow of any body of water, or spray from any of these, all whether or not driven by wind, including storm surge».

This image — a still - frame from an animation (linked here)-- shows how waves of energy from the earthquake and tsunami propagated up to the edge of space and disturbed the density of the electrons in the ionosphere.

These processes release gravitational potential energy and can produce impulsive large - amplitude surface - gravity waves known as tsunamis (a term derived from the Japanese language).

I encourage you to read «Tsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on MarcTsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on Marctsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on March 11th.

The primary hazard in coastal Tuvalu is from a tsunami, a huge earthquake - driven wave arriving with essentially no warning.

After Tohoku, my guess is most Japanese construction will be above that tidal wave elevation, as the ancient stone warnings from the Cascadia event of January 26, 1700 (dated not by Amerindians but by the Japanese tsunami it caused.)

They probably think that the Tsunami wave that slams into Hawaii from Japan, actually was water that travelled from Japan.

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Conservationists say the hippo, named Owen, had been swept away from his family by strong waves that rocked the coast after a tsunami.

What strikes me as funny is this: There are no tsunamis hundreds of miles from the coast, obviously, so the government constructs test situations in which a hydro power station further upstream fails fatally and the resulting wave then floods the reactor.

It does not take systematic account of «direct impacts on the environment and human health» — things such as mortality from extreme events like heat waves or tsunamis, for instance.

I was disappointed to be dragged away when Sprog 2 melted down after a tsunami - style wave skittled her in the pool (the seas continue to be a tad rough)(fortunately a lethal scotch and Diet Coke from the pool bar softened the blow... for me... for around three hours... whoa... Sprog 2 made do with a strawberry soft - serve).