Sentences with phrase «of deadly tsunami»

It will send a train of deadly tsunami waves across the Pacific and crippling shock waves across a far wider geographic area than all the California quakes you've ever heard about.

It was one of the deadliest tsunamis in...

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These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with their size (magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2) and location (hundreds of kilometers from the active zone that spawned the deadly 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami).

«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.

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

In fact, the Indonesian Sumatra earthquake in December 2004 that spawned a deadly tsunami moved so much water that it slightly changed our planet's shape and sped its rotation by 2.68 microseconds, or nearly three millionths of a second.

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.

It was one of the biggest and deadliest tsunamis in recorded history.

Yet some combination of factors made the Tohoku - Oki earthquake bigger and with a more deadly tsunami than scientists expected.

The indirect effects of a temblor can be equally deadly, as demonstrated by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami that struck last December.

The underestimate of the fault proved deadly, as Japanese seawalls were built under the assumption that extra-large quakes wouldn't produce any extra-large tsunamis.

An ocean engineer at the University of Rhode Island has found that a massive underwater landslide, combined with the 9.0 earthquake, was responsible for triggering the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

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 Impossible tells the true story of a family's harrowing experience in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters on record.

The 9.0 earthquake that rocked the Far Eastern nation and spurred the deadly tsunami waves has left thousands of people dead and far more still unaccounted for.

The lovely shoreline surrounding the island of Bali holds a deadly secret: the seas around Bali are very vulnerable to tsunami.

As Japan awoke on Saturday to the devastation left by the one - two punch of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a deadly tsunami, Japanese officials warned that damage to a coastal nuclear reactor may have resulted in a radiation leak after its cooling system was knocked offline on Friday.