Sentences with phrase «massive tsunami»

Looking to give boost to the revival efforts of the area, the summer art, music and food festival near a location that saw massive tsunami damage in 2011.

The 8.9 magnitude quake stirred up massive tsunami waves that battered coastal cities, especially along the east coast north of Tokyo.

The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning system for massive tsunamis.

If this tense relationship ever slips, details of the features that Bécel and her team found closer to the plates» surfaces could ignite an earthquake and build a potentially massive tsunami.

The earthquake generated an unexpectedly massive tsunami that washed over eastern Japan roughly 30 minutes later, killing more than 15,800 people and injuring more than 6,100.

All of this is possible in interactive environments, seeing players smash through walls, drop through skylights, and avoiding massive tsunami's whilst fighting off attackers.

Because the sound from a seismic event will reach land well before the water itself, the researchers suggest that identifying the specific acoustic signature of tsunami - generating earthquakes could lead to a faster - acting warning system for massive tsunamis.

According to the researchers, this landslide could have triggered a massive tsunami, which could have been as large as 27 metres high.

And the massive tsunamis they must have generated.

Entergy insists Indian Point's reactors can easily withstand the sort of low - magnitude quakes that occur in the Northeast, which are nothing compared to the 8.9 monster that ravaged Northern Japan, causing a massive tsunami.

When the massive tsunami waves of the 2011 eastern Japan earthquake rolled back out to sea, they pulled with them fragments of docks, boats, and buoys that sometimes contained living stowaways.

Fryer, of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, is confident that more evidence of the massive tsunami will be found, confirming that events of this magnitude have rocked the island chain in the not - so - distant past.

An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

Fryer is so convinced that he has worked with the city and county of Honolulu to update their tsunami evacuation maps to include the possibility of a massive tsunami the size of the one detailed in the new study hitting the islands.

Burney speculated that the deposit could have been left by a massive tsunami, but he was unable to verify the claim.

According to Witter, it is possible that a massive tsunami hit Hawaii hundreds of years ago, based on the deposits found in the Kauai sinkhole, but he said it is difficult to determine if all three locations experienced the same event based on radiocarbon dating alone.

In 2004, as a massive tsunami roiled through the Indian Ocean killing hundreds of thousands of people, a dozen or so scientists quietly confronted an impending disaster potentially even more lethal.

On 26 December 2004, a massive tsunami devastated Indonesia's coastal city of Banda Aceh, levelling nearly half of the city and killing an estimated 160,000 people across the province.

The meltdown was triggered by the massive tsunami that followed the quake.

A 300 - meter object landing off the western coast of the U.S. could inundate coastal cities» with a massive tsunami, Beshore adds.

That large movement — releasing energy equal to 9.1 million gigajoules, or roughly the amount of energy contained in 1.5 billion barrels of oil — explains the massive tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japanese coast.»

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

The international team, led by researchers from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, conclude that only a massive tsunami could have done that.

A «nightmare scenario», he says, is a massive tsunami following a powerful but slow - rupturing quake that causes little or no ground shaking, because people often then ignore any warnings.

«Earthquake acoustics can indicate if a massive tsunami is imminent.»

That came under harsh scrutiny after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011.

That is large enough to trigger a massive tsunami.

Scientists have found evidence in this region that a massive tsunami killed off many organisms 66 million years ago.

Volcanic eruptions at sea trigger a massive tsunami that New Warriors member Namorita witnesses crashing into Atlantic City, killing everyone there except two people she manages to save.

Like hundreds of thousands, teacher Laura Dunham's tranquil morning in Sri Lanka December 26, 2004, was shattered by a massive tsunami.

Dunham was staying in a small coastal village called Unawatuna when she became one of the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by a massive tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and other countries in the region.

The impact pushes the moon off its axis into a closer rotation with the earth causing immediate and massive tsunamis that wipe out millions.

Nobody knows how many lives were saved by dogs in the massive Tsunami of December 2004.

The fourth most powerful earthquake recorded since 1900 triggered a massive tsunami killing over 200,000 people in various countries bordering the Indian Ocean.