Sentences with phrase «ground in a tsunami»

Good divorce advice is like a shelter on high ground in a tsunami.

Not exact matches

They are usually among the first teams on the ground after a natural disaster (think tsunami in Indonesia, Haiti earthquake).

World Vision's Lindsey Talerico interviews Casey Calamusa, who is on the ground in Japan, about the earthquake and tsunami devastation in Japan, in this interview reposted on RELEVANT.

«Given the evidence we have in hand, we are more convinced than before that this person was either violently killed by a tsunami, or had their grave ripped open by one — leading to their head but not the rest of their body being naturally reburied where it then remained undiscovered in the ground for some 6,000 or so years,» explains Goff.

Baranes adds, «His model was also consistent with our GPS - based model in terms of earthquake magnitude, ground surface displacement and tsunami inundation.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

In light of the Fukushima disaster, an obvious move might now be to recommend placing the backup generators for nuclear power stations on higher ground to guard against tsunamis or floods.

This work is vital for understanding risk exposure in these countries from both ground shaking and tsunamis.»

«Erosion from ancient tsunami in Northern California: Geologists use ground - penetrating radar to determine the breadth and depth of erosion from an ancient tsunami in Northern California.»

A continuous GPS network could easily detect this fitful acceleration, well before ground - shaking earthquakes began to occur and, with luck, in plenty of time for a useful tsunami warning.

«This event did not produce a tsunami,» Segall says, «but if we can detect potentially catastrophic ground motion in its early stages, we might be able to issue tsunami warnings in the future.»

Depending on where you live in the Cascadia region, an earthquake may cause ground shaking, landslides, soil liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), tsunamis, fires, hazardous material spills and building damage.

These include ground shaking, landslides, liquefaction, and in some areas, tsunamis.

This wide - spread ground shaking combined with accompanying elevation changes and the likely generation of a tsunami along the Pacific coast, will cause loss of life, property damage, and business interruption in vulnerable locations throughout southwestern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northwestern California.

Despite some of the claims in the infamous New Yorker article, many hotels in the area have evacuation plans outlined for guests, signs throughout town direct inhabitants to the safety of high ground, and local businesses have begun to construct tsunami and earthquake safe buildings.

Remember the accounts of the animals disappearing to safer ground before that horrible Tsunami in 2005?

Ultimately I believe people are the most important, but if I had to worry about beach zoning, I would worry in this order: 1) tsunamis; 2) hurricanes and ground subsidence; 3) low pressure systems and rogue waves; 4) sewage and ship leaks; 5) sea level rise.