Sentences with phrase «powerful wave in»

Puerto Viejo also is home to the most powerful wave in the country — Salsa Brava, a thick Hawaiian - style barrel wave that builds in deep water and pours over a shallow coral reef lining the coast.

Puerto Viejo also is home to what is considered the most powerful wave in Costa Rica — «Salsa Brava.»

But atmospheric scientists know that, like ripples in a pond, tropical weather creates powerful waves in the atmosphere that travel all the way to North America and have major impacts on weather in the U.S.

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Everything with mass in the universe theoretically creates them — you and me included — but only highly cataclysmic events, such as exploding stars, colliding black holes, or the Big Bang, can generate waves that are powerful enough for LIGO to detect.

The wave of preemptive cancellations comes as the second powerful nor'easter in a week takes aim at the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

The tsunami's waves hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, on March 11, 2011.

Founded in 2006, Mint made waves in the personal finance software world thanks to its powerful interface and ability to add transactions from thousands of financial institutions.

One day, when he was in Rio on summer vacation from Harvard, a powerful storm had created waves more than 30 feet tall that broke perilously late, right on the beach.

An equally unprecedented wave of complex risks, from climate change to cyber threats, calls into question the value of citizenship in even the most powerful economies in the world.

Like an ocean - wave caught in a snapshot, or a torrent of lava stiffened by cooling, the mountains and living things of the earth wear the aspect, to those who study them, of a powerful momentum that has become petrified.

None of this tells us precisely what level of power was released in Galilee and whether, amid God's mysteries, Jesus actually could command a spiritual immune system powerful enough to still actual wind and waves.

The Tigers have used an offensive strategy geared around a mostly unparalleled ability to line up in the I - formation, shove aside the first wave and second waves of the defense, and then unleash powerful and freakishly athletic backs to run over whatever was left.

In the dark, a huge ship bearing down on the launch and the swimmer is a semiblind demon to be diverted with sirens, a powerful searchlight and flaming, gasoline - dipped rags waved wildly on sticks.

The combined effect agitation from the waves and the cleaning solution is more powerful than just soaking the items in cleaning solution.

Chicago - based photographer Ivette Ivens is one of the many people making waves in the world of extended breastfeeding with a powerful photo series titled «I Breastfeed My Toddler,» which depicts women intimately feeding their babies.

Gillibrand has repeatedly call the wave of accusations against powerful men in the media, politics and entertainment an important moment of reckoning.

It has created a wave of awareness and brave confrontations over sexual harassment and assault, taking down powerful men in the process.

McLaughlin is the latest state lawmaker to face allegations of sexual harassment, a wave that began in 2012 with accusation against then - powerful Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez, ultimately sweeping up other lawmakers from both parties.

The lawsuit and suspensions are the latest in a wave of sexual harassment scandals that have led to firings and resignations of powerful men across a number of industries after a New York Times investigation into accusations of sexual harassment and abuse against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

In spite of those setbacks, Senate Democrats appear well - positioned to fight for their majority, though with polls showing a powerful wave of anti-incumbent sentiment, the fall campaign is likely to be volatile and unpredictable.

In the rare case that the parent galaxy that merges with the DCBH also hosts a central black hole, the two holes will collide and release powerful gravitational waves.

LIGO detects gravitational waves by splitting a powerful infrared laser beam in two, then sending the beams at right angles through tunnels to mirrors 2.5 miles away.

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.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

The merger generates powerful ripples in space called gravitational waves that kick the newly merged black hole away at speeds of hundreds or even thousands of kilometres per second.

At the TU Vienna, an extraordinarily powerful new method to influence the shape of the laser light wave has been developed in cooperation with the Imperial College in London and the Max - Born - Institute in Berlin.

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

Last week, a scientific paper suggested that the powerful, milliseconds - long pulses of radio waves from space result when superdense burnt - out stars called neutron stars collide and perish in remote galaxies.

They think it may be ricocheting from a powerful blast of ripples in space - time called gravitational waves.

«The gravitational waves from these supermassive black hole binary mergers are the most powerful in the universe,» says study lead author Chiara Mingarelli, a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.

Researchers from the Office of Naval Research's multi-institutional Internal Waves In Straits Experiment (IWISE) have published in the journal Nature the first «cradle - to - grave» model of the world's most powerful internal wWaves In Straits Experiment (IWISE) have published in the journal Nature the first «cradle - to - grave» model of the world's most powerful internal waveIn Straits Experiment (IWISE) have published in the journal Nature the first «cradle - to - grave» model of the world's most powerful internal wavein the journal Nature the first «cradle - to - grave» model of the world's most powerful internal waveswaves.

In the meantime, his results and others» are powerful signs that brain waves aren't just an idle hum.

When exposed to pulsed laser light, the gold evaporated, producing a powerful shock wave in the colloid comparable to that caused, say, by the impact of a micrometeorite.

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

«Our measurements of the bright spot suggest there are powerful shock waves in the star's atmosphere that reach higher temperatures than are predicted by current theoretical models for AGB stars,» says Theo Khouri, astronomer at Chalmers and member of the team.

After investigating seismic waves observed during the earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk, the researchers found the initial quake triggered four other powerful shocks, one of magnitude 7.8, one of magnitude 8.0 and two of magnitude 7.9.

This membrane translates larger movements from air - pressure waves to smaller, more powerful motions in another structure called the cuticle plate.

One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday, with huge waves sweeping away coastal villages and devastating one of the main cities in the region.

When they exposed it to ultrasonic waves, microscopic bubbles formed and collapsed in tiny but powerful explosions that cratered the SIM card's surface.

Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high - speed jets blasting radio waves and other radiation across the Universe.

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, two orbiting black holes will generate powerful gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

Pulsars emit powerful beams of radio waves that sweep across space like a lighthouse, but radio telescopes only notice these if Earth is in their path.

Pinton and colleagues, with help from recent advances in a technology called ultrasound elastography, developed an ultrasound imaging device and data - processing algorithms to track the larger, more powerful shear waves that they and other researchers suspect cause tissue damage after head injuries.

A recent wave of overdoses in states including Ohio and Kentucky has taught law enforcement officers and first responders that the medication used to reverse opioid overdoses — a powerful chemical called Narcan, or naxolone — often fails to rouse patients who have taken too much carfentanil.

«Virgo brings a powerful new capability to detect and better locate gravitational - wave sources, one that will undoubtedly lead to exciting and unanticipated results in the future.»

BELLA has made progress in demonstrating the rapid acceleration of electrons using separate stages of laser - based acceleration by forming and heating plasmas in which a powerful wave is created for electrons to «surf» on.

He points to enormous 1,000 - ton boulders tossed by rising seas and powerful waves on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas as illustrative of the power of such superstorms.

NASA's newest moon orbiter is beaming data to Earth via a powerful laser beam to test an innovative interplanetary communications systems that doesn't rely on radio waves, and a new photo reveals just what a moon laser signal looks like in infrared.

Traffic - related pollution and sunlight can combine to promote the production of ozone — a powerful asthma trigger — and the stagnant, humid air of heat waves traps particulate matter and other pollutants, causing them to hang in the air and become more concentrated.