Sentences with phrase «largest landslide»

1)(Almost) Horrifying Video highlights why human behavior is so important in judging dog behavior — In maybe the largest landslide ever, this post was by far the most popular of the year.

This mechanism has been suggested as one reason why the largest landslide known to humankind, the Storegga Slide, was so destructive.

«Barry Goldwater lost a Presidential election by the largest landslide ever heard of in his time.

Ronald Reagan won by the largest landslide ever heard of in his time.

Labour would have won an even larger landslide in 1997.

With Theresa May's social care implosion demolishing her lead in a seemingly nailed - on election, attention is turning not to how large her landslide will be - ahem - but what kind of victory, if any, she can escape with.

The scientists have recently begun the difficult task of collecting long core samples of sediment from the sites of large landslides, a critical step in determining when they happened and how often they and their associated tsunamis are likely to occur.

They found that large landslides in the southern, lower elevation ranges of the Himalaya are more likely to increase flood risk than those in the high mountains further north.

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

«People rarely see large landslides happen; they typically only see the aftereffects,» Ekström notes.

The account also reported large landslides.

Coastal property owners typically seek to develop bulkheads in an attempt to slow large landslide erosion caused by wave action.

Not exact matches

But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.

Her best - selling 1964 book, A Choice, Not an Echo, pushing the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, resulted in the debacle of Goldwater's landslide loss, but the long - term result was the mobilization of large numbers of people, mostly in the Midwest and South and many of them women, who were appalled at the moral havoc that the 1960s had wrought and also, as time passed, at what they perceived as America's growing defense weakness under Jimmy Carter.

But after the general election landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 constituencies available in Scotland, Salmond is now an alpha wolf with a large, well - organised pack.

I think the whole project would have just taken a bit longer, but with a larger majority (as without Healey sure the Labour Govt would have collapsed to a landslide in 1979?).

Labour also remain the largest party in the Welsh Assembly — losing just a single seat - and are on course to win back London by a landslide.

The Labour Party won the 1997 general election with a landslide majority of 179; it was the largest Labour majority ever, and at the time the largest swing to a political party achieved since 1945.

If Labour were to win a similar share of the vote at a general election, they could expect a majority even larger than Blair's landslides in 1997 and 2001.

On his way to a landslide victory in the Democratic Party primary last month, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D - Jamaica) outraised his nearest opponent, Mike Scala, by a ratio of 83:1, with the largest donations to his almost half - a-million-dollar war chest coming from the industries he holds sway over as a member of the House Committee on Financial Services.

As melting has progressed in the Arctic, large holes and landslides have popped up across the tundra.

Knowing where landslides take place in the mountains could help us better predict whether or not large deposits of gravel will reach the Ganga Plain and increase flood risk.»

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.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

This area is known for having landslides that are among the largest and longest in the entire solar system.

Lead author, Dr James Hunt from the National Oceanography Centre, said «What is really key here is that submarine volcanic landslides can be so much larger than their better studied counterparts above the sea.

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.

These processes are typical in a steep landscape where rock avalanches and landslides supply large volumes of boulders and material.

So far they have no way of computing the risk of an undersea landslide there, and thus the possibility of a large tsunami submerging the mid-Atlantic seaboard — although it's surely less imminent than the next major hurricane.

While the history books report several fatal Caribbean tsunamis in the past, Grindlay has found evidence that even larger tsunamis, triggered by underwater landslides, struck the region before 1492.

The Markagunt gravity slide, the size of three Ohio counties, is one of the two largest known continental landslides (larger slides exist on the ocean floors).

But the Bingham Canyon Mine slide «is probably the largest nonvolcanic landslide in modern North American history,» said study co-author Jeff Moore, an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah.

«Prehistoric landslide discovery rivals largest known on surface of Earth.»

«Large - scale catastrophic collapses of volcanic fields such as these are rare but represent the largest known landslides on the surface of the Earth,» the authors wrote.

Even the landslide portion of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption was 57 times larger than the Bingham Canyon slide.

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.

That figure makes them the largest nonvolcanic slides known in North America in centuries — although the landslide that triggered the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state was about 57 times as voluminous.

Of the 29 largest known landslides worldwide from 1980 through 2012, ground motions from the 27 largest — including the massive slide that triggered the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980, the greatest one yet observed and recorded — were detected by seismic instruments that were part of a global network of instruments.

The large amounts of additional data, researchers say, has helped refine previous work, fill holes in the data coverage, and also to rule out other possible causes of some sediment deposits, such as major storms, random landslides or small local earthquakes.

Although such landslides fortunately don't affect people immediately, they can have devastating long - term effects, particularly if they block rivers to form large lakes that can suddenly breach the natural dams, flooding populated areas downstream.

Reviewing surveys of the seafloor conducted by Japanese scientists before and after the earthquake, the scientists found signs of a large slump on the seafloor — a rotational landslide 40 kilometers by 20 kilometers in extent and 2 kilometers thick that traveled down the slope of the Japan Trench, leaving a horizontal footprint the size of Paris that could only have been created by a 100 - meter uplift in the seafloor.

Meanwhile, disastrous events like floods, volcanos, landslides and earthquakes — the four events posing the highest risks in the provinces — led to «no large, consistent or significant effects on migration.»

It is also by an absolute landslide, the largest city with a Cuban - American plurality in the entire country.

But the overwhelming 2 to 1 opposition in those areas showed the opposite; the landslide against charters in inner - city Boston is even a larger margin than the statewide result.

The board of Indonesia's largest automaker voted by a landslide to oust Chief Executive Rini Soewandi from her post, replacing her with Theodore Rachmat.

The unusually large screen nearly caused a positive landslide victory filled with praise from general users who wished to make the most of digital documents.

Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world's largest open - pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that «sometimes it's still the earth itself that shakes the world.»

SciDevnet: The large - scale devastation and deaths caused by landslides and floods in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have highlighted gaps in India's disaster preparedness, as well as a worrying neglect of environmental concerns in hilly areas.

These can be caused by sub-marine landslides, seafloor deformations due to earthquakes, or the impact of a large meteorite.

Flood and landslide warnings are in effect in many counties, particularly in the Sacramento Valley, which is crossed by several rivers and sits downstream from several large reservoirs and dams.