Sentences with phrase «giant tsunami»
A "giant tsunami" refers to a very big and powerful ocean wave. It can be caused by events like earthquakes or underwater landslides. When a giant tsunami strikes the coast, it can cause massive destruction and flooding. Full definition
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The last giant tsunami recorded in Sendai struck in 869.
Haiti's quake has also demonstrated that strike - slip faults, which create mostly horizontal motions, can set off landslides and giant tsunamis (usually associated with faults that move in a vertical, thrusting motion).
Jungers speculates that a giant tsunami like the one that hit the region in 2004 swept them out to sea.
The terrifying scale of the Thera eruption, followed by the devastating force of the giant tsunami it created, may have led to a gradual unraveling of the values and beliefs that had sustained this brilliant civilization for so long.
Actually, it's so 1998 when «Deep Impact» not only had a black president, but had the White House get destroyed by a giant tsunami.
Sure, we can allow ourselves to be entertained by a fictitious film that features giant buildings crashing on top of each other and a giant tsunami encapsulating the crumbling Golden Gate Bridge.
The Wave (R for profanity and shocking images) Disaster flick, set in the fjords of Norway, about a geologist's (Kristoffer Joner) race to save a tourist retreat nestled in a narrow valley from a giant tsunami about to crush everything in its path.
Building fall apart like paper, the ground ripples as the tectonic plates shift, and the giant tsunami crashes to land like an unstoppable force of nature.