Sentences with phrase «most tsunami»

In most tsunami - prone countries, there are now professionals listening and able to make timely decisions, as long as the warnings are equally timely.

Powerful earthquakes cause most tsunamis.

While most tsunamis seem to occur in the Western Pacific, any coastal shoreline is susceptible.

The death toll was highest wherever there was little or no understanding of tsunami precursors, the harbinger shoreline recession that accompanies most tsunamis at their nearest target shoreline.

Subduction plate boundaries produce Earth's largest earthquakes, and most tsunamis.

Not exact matches

In fact, most areas in the affected zone would be able to ride out a high - magnitude earthquake and would be out of the way of the tsunami expected to follow, according to Bill Steele, director of outreach and communications for the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

Most tragedies happen somewhere: the spot where the towers fell on 9/11, the beaches where the waves came ashore during the Asian tsunami, the sunflower fields where the pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell after it was blasted out of the Ukrainian sky last summer.

The Stock Market Crash of October 1987 is indelible in the minds of most veteran investors as a «Financial Tsunami» that came out of nowhere — which rocked Wall Street to its foundations.

Most, and by most I mean a far overwhelming number, of Christians were sickened by the earthquakes in Haiti and Bam, the tsunami's, and every other natural and man - made disasMost, and by most I mean a far overwhelming number, of Christians were sickened by the earthquakes in Haiti and Bam, the tsunami's, and every other natural and man - made disasmost I mean a far overwhelming number, of Christians were sickened by the earthquakes in Haiti and Bam, the tsunami's, and every other natural and man - made disaster.

This is especially true when Christians live nobly, courageously, and compassionately in service to those who have been most deeply wounded by the Gnostic cultural tsunami and its personally lethal effects.

Whether it be a shrine, or as simple a thing as the clock found in the rubble of a town that stopped at 3:20, the moment the tsunami crushed the hopes and dreams of a great many people, each is a symbol given to us as a method of rememberance of something most of us will never endure.

Writing from Chennai, India, Thailand's most popular athlete says he is eager to return to his tsunami - ravaged homeland

But the most meaningful to me are at times like the recent tsunami in Japan, or when the riots broke out in Iran, and I received letters of concern for the people in the DVDs.

And observers wondered if the governor had also shot himself in the foot with the Republicans, already under pressure after big GOP losses in the most recent elections, potentially spurred by an anti-Trump wave that could become a tsunami in 2018.

«You can roughly split us 50 - 50 between those who make the most of it and those who absolutely hate it,» says an SNP MP elected in last May's Nationalist tsunami when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 seats.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on corruption charges Thursday may yet yield a «political tsunami» that would roil the State Capitol, but history and Assembly Democrats say the corruption charges against Albany's most powerful leader over the past 20 years won't likely change Albany in the short term.

• Speaking of waves, Democrats will need a tsunami this year to take out Republican incumbent Chris Collins, who represents the most Republican congressional district in all of New York.

A few weeks earlier, the most powerful tsunami in decades had swept across Southeast Asia.

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

The tsunami was at least three times the size of a 1946 tsunami that was the most destructive in Hawaii's recent history, according to the new study that examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred.

Just over one year ago, a magnitude - 9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years.

Scientists previously assumed that vertical movement alone contributed most of a tsunami's energy.

But if by the Big One they mean the earthquake that will wreak havoc over the widest geographic area, that could destroy the most critical infrastructure, that could send a train of tsunamis across the Pacific causing economic mayhem that would probably last a decade or more — then the seismic demon to blame could not possibly be the San Andreas.

She and Woodruff tried using one of the most widely - cited models for the 1707 Nankai Trough earthquake to flood Lake Ryuuoo, but this only generated a six - foot tsunami that came nowhere near overtopping the 13 - foot barrier beach.

«It's really the tsunamis from these earthquakes that prove to be the deadliest and most dangerous,» says Roland Bürgmann, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley who wasn't part of the study.

The leakage earlier this month of hundreds of tons of radioactive water — the most serious incident at the beleaguered plant since it was devastated by a tsunami in March 2011 — highlights the failure by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to properly manage the operation.

The National Science Foundation initiative has helped scientists simulate some of the most powerful and destructive forces on Earth, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides.

The discovery, reported in the current issue of Nature Communications, logs a number of firsts: the first record of ancient tsunami activity found in a sea cave; the first record for such a long time period in the Indian Ocean; and the most pristine record of tsunamis anywhere in the world.

That would make the storm — Tropical Cyclone Nargis — one of Myanmar's most deadly natural disasters and the second largest in the region after the tsunami of 2004, which took nearly 200,000 lives.

Gary M. McMurtry of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his colleagues conclude that the most likely way the shells could have reached such a lofty location was within the waves of a tsunami that attained the astonishing height of 300 meters along some Hawaiian coastlines.

The 2004 Sumatra - Andaman tsunami was the most devastating in recorded history, killing more than 225,000 people, including thousands of tourists.

Following a massive underestimate straight after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis, in April NISA said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels were released between 11 and 15 March, putting the crisis at level 7, the most severe category on the international scale used to rate nuclear accidents.

«We wanted to find out how coastal areas would be affected by tsunamis in a region that is not only the most active in the Mediterranean in terms of seismicity and tectonic movements, but has also experienced numerous tsunami events in the past.»

If an asteroid struck Earth, which of its effects — scorching heat, flying debris, towering tsunamis — would claim the most lives?

Most of Kitakami tunnel would be in Iwate Prefecture, whose coast was battered by the tsunami.

It will extend the country's monitoring capabilities out to where the most powerful quakes are born, buying perhaps another 10 precious seconds of warning before shaking starts or a tsunami floods the coast.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

The world's first ranking of tsunami risks for major tourist beaches shows popular spots like Hawaii and Bali are most in danger

More than 20,000 people died, most as a result of the tsunami that hit the coastline a half - hour after the quake.

The great Sumatra - Andaman earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, for instance, unzipped a 1,300 kilometer long segment of the subduction zone and unleashed one of history's most destructive, deadly tsunamis.

The most powerful tsunami in recent history occurred on Dec. 26, 2004.

His most recent tsunami test cloak measures 2 meters (more than 6 feet) across.

Most brands make waves at Fashion Week for their innovative designs — but one organization, FTL Moda, is creating tsunamis with its innovative model selection.

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The tsunami sequence in The Impossible is likely to get most of the attention — and rightfully so, since it's ten of the most harrowing minutes most moviegoers are likely to see this year — but the movie is actually filled with smaller but no less gripping scenes of these family members scrambling to find each other amid of landscape of wreckage and strangers.

On 26 December 2004, the most powerful earthquake in decades caused a tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

The schools and academies most likely to experience the tsunami are inevitably those where there are a larger number of young people with low prior attainment — or those students for which a C grade is truly aspirational.

Graduation rates increased most for the new small schools, but they also rose for the schools that pre-dated the small - schools tsunami and remained open.

A common theme among auto makers here is the resiliency of the Japanese people following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which crippled production across the industry but most notably resulted in reduced builds by Toyota and Honda.