Sentences with phrase «landslides into»

According to researchers with the Northwest Territories Geological Survey, the permafrost collapse is intensifying and causing landslides into rivers and lakes that can choke off life downstream, all the way to where the rivers discharge into the Arctic Ocean.

According to researchers with the Northwest Territories Geological Survey, the permafrost collapse is intensifying and causing landslides into rivers and lakes that can choke off life downstream, all the way to where the rivers discharge into the Arctic Ocean.

So, do nothing and watch our club landslide into a starbuckian corporate nightmare where dollars are the only thing of Importance and our expectancy for success on the field is lowered even still.

He notes that in 1958 an earthquake in Alaska triggered a landslide into Lituya Bay that generated a wave that climbed 525 meters up the walls of the surrounding valley, the highest ever documented.

Uthaug has taken the actual events of 1934 when a landslide into a fjord triggered a tsunami that essentially...

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With so much to do, a slip in productivity can quickly turn into a landslide of unfinished projects that are left by the wayside.

The recent erosion in equities turned into an all - out landslide Monday morning.

The Republicans, by choosing Goldwater, turned what would have been a pretty normal reelection into a landslide.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

With a landslide all but assured, he embarked on a mission to browbeat the state's Republican officeholders into endorsing Trump — or else.

Maria slammed into the U.S. territory Wednesday, crushing concrete balconies and paralyzing the island with landslides, flooding and downed trees.

However, he is a wily and canny operator who helped Ken beat Frank Dobson into third place in 2000 and now looks set to win a landslide for Corbyn in 2015.

> Last year I asked for your views on whether the Tories should direct more resources into «landslide targets».

He spent $ 869,165 on his landslide re-election campaign against Philip A. Fedele, a Rochester - area Democrat who put no money or effort into the race, according to the BN.

«Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record - breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump - emblazoned anchor around its neck.»

They promised a referendum on it in their 1997 general election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair following his landslide victory, saying he wanted to keep the link between MPs and their constituencies.

If you want to put jobs, the economy and living standards first, you must vote Labour to stop a landslide victory that could turn Britain into a barren tax haven run in the interests of billionaires.

There will also be serious questions about the future of the Union, following an SNP landslide that has turned Scotland into a virtual one - party state.

We haven't had any post-budget figures from ICM, Populus or MORI yet, but so far it is looking as if, between the rows over MPs expenses, «smeargate» and the budget, we have seen a further shift against Labour and we are back into Tory landslide territory.

And his speech put miles of clear red water between him and the man who led Labour to three electoral victories, the first a historic landslide, the third won in spite of taking Britain into profoundly reviled wars.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

He is after all the foreign secretary that led us into the Iraq war and still won a landslide majority in his Blackburn constituency.

Researchers previously believed that debris flows in mountain terrain primarily derived from rainfall - triggered landslides flowing into watercourses from surrounding hillsides.

Part of the canyon wall collapsed in multiple landslides in the distant past, with debris fanning out into the valley below.

Large volumes of hard rock dumped into rivers by landslides can increase flood risk up to hundreds of kilometres downstream, potentially affecting millions of people, researchers say.

Computer models and landslide simulators — chutelike contraptions into which scientists unleash torrents of mud, water and debris — are yielding new clues about the complex factors that contribute to slope collapse.

To reproduce the vertical collapse of landslide material in the landslide scarp area and the extreme thinning and runout in the front, the model must take into account the presence of ice in the calculations.

Just before Obama arrived, she had spent a week in the field with a research team seeking to better understand one emerging hazard caused by melting permafrost: a massive, slow - motion landslide that threatens the Dalton Highway, the only land route into Alaska's lucrative North Slope oil fields and arguably the state's most important road.

The landslide made a hole in the ocean into which water rushed down, then bounced back.

If that same large body of rock and debris were to gain momentum and take the form of a gigantic landslide — separating itself from the rest of the volcano and sliding rapidly into the sea — the consequences would be devastating.

Landslides are usually triggered by rain or snowmelt flowing into the base of a «slump» of loose rock and soil.

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

The earthquake triggered giant landslides along Lake Washington, causing entire blocks of forest to slide into the lake.

«My guess is that a large landslide slid into Nyos and upset the stability.»

Dr Beaman said a debris field of large blocks, or knolls, and numerous smaller blocks, lies scattered over 30 kilometres from the main landslide remains, into the Queensland Trough, to a depth of 1350 metres.

For instance, Ekström says, in several cases major landslides have fallen upon glaciers and then scooted nearly friction - free across several kilometers of ice — which tends to muffle seismic vibrations until the speeding material slams into the opposite side of the valley.

Raymond says this could be due to a combination of two effects: small landslides revealing ice previously hidden beneath a layer of dust, and ice in areas that aren't usually sunlit being warmed enough to turn into water vapour.

Landslides occur when the shaking is strong enough to move a slope downhill and liquefaction is a process where strong shaking can reduce the strength of saturated and loose soils and turn them into a substance more jelly - like than solid.

Dr. Jerison studies systems governed by simple rules that nonetheless exhibit complex behaviors, such as phase transitions — for instance, when a slight temperature increase causes ice to melt into liquid water; and threshold phenomena — for instance, when a small extra deposit of soil causes a stable slope to topple over into a landslide.

Much more interesting are the three distinct types of mineral flow across the landscape, produced by the movement of ice - rich material, landslides or blankets of ejected particles following impact into ice - rich material.

As for the earlier study on carbon and ultraviolet light, environmental scientist Rose Cory, of the University of North Carolina, focused on sites in Alaska where melting permafrost has caused the soil to collapse into sinkholes or landslides.

Huge volcano - triggered landslides can alter the seabed when they tumble into the ocean and sweep across the sea floor.

Prop 65 or the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 was voted into law by a landslide (63 percent).

This forces authors into a tight corner, allow Amazon to have ultimate control over your income OR perish under a landslide of KU books.

Landslide elections, time machines, and Drake's infamous victory dances (we think)-- this has been a marathon week for peering into the future.

The recent erosion in equities turned into an all - out landslide Monday morning.

Even before the landslide sweep of the Liberal Party into power, assuring a more stimulative fiscal policy next year, the...

For years the waterfall poured directly into the ocean until a massive fire, landslide and highway reconstruction project near the area in 1983 - 84 filled the cove with enough material to form a sandy beach several dozen feet out.

Jansen, however, never lapses into melancholic musing; the inclusion of incongruous elements (car tires, pigs, toadstools, soccer balls, numbers and letters, flags) that one might find half - buried in any contemporary disaster scene — from our media smorgasbord of war, famine, pandemic, fire, flood, landslide, hurricane, and drought — lends urgency and contemporaneity to his visions.

(12/20/2011) As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into last weekend's flash flood and landslide, including looking at the role of illegal logging.