Sentences with phrase «such landslides»

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.

If researchers have a way to identify such landslides quickly, they can possibly minimize damages and loss of life, he suggests.

Log Cabin / Gay Republicans: electing Cuccinelli by such a landslide should be evidence that the Republican party couldn't care less about this constituency.

However, the flume - lab experiments suggest that a debris flow can occur in a steep river channel in the absence of such a landslide, simply as a result of increased water discharge over the streambed.

Today's REALTOR ® has never received such a landslide of opinion.

Not exact matches

Chad has invoked landslides and such, though, so he may insist that God does indeed act by giving things a shove when things need to happen.

There certainly are such people, but not enough to ensure electoral landslides for female candidates.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

«We don't invest in landslides,» he said, which was certainly not true in his own case: The RGA spent roughly $ 1.7 million on Christie's landslide victory over Democrat Barbara Buono in 2013 — a race he more than likely would have won handily without such excessive spending.

The Conservative Party, along with a range of right - leaning groups such as the Rifle And Pistol Association and abortion opponents, opposed the convention referendum, which was soundly rejected in a landslide by voters.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

The 2010 election was such a blowout for Andrew M. Cuomo that incumbent and competitive Republican candidates down ballot — including brilliant state comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, on whose campaign I consulted — were defeated in the landslide.

A Labour government with anything other than a landslide majority would also struggle to get measures such as Mr Miliband's proposed new 50p top rate of tax through Parliament.

According to her, such primaries should have credible processes to allow for quality outcome, so that PDP will not lose out but produce popular and credible candidates and have landslide victory in 2019 general elections.

«Severe sea states, such as tsunamis, rogue waves, storms, landslides, and even meteorite fall, can all generate acoustic - gravity waves,» Kadri says.

Sustaining fresh water and energy resources; mitigating the effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather, landslides, coastal erosion, and solar flares; and dealing with the consequences of global warming and sea - level rise are issues that affect all populations, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or cultural traditions.

In a study published in the Chinese journal Tropical Geography in 2003, scholars at Guangzhou's South China Normal University predicted that such tinkering with the water level could trigger activity in 283 landslide - prone areas.

But one has also to consider such microcosmic problems as poisonous snakes, being alone in the forest on slippery paths, or the occurrence of landslides next to the station.

Collins will present what the USGS has learned about the 2014 Oso landslide, including the liquefied base layer, the intact hummock blocks, and hundreds of telltale liquefaction features such as sand boils that give evidence of the high pore pressures at the base of the slide.

It could be fluctuations in groundwater levels, or changes that could provide early warnings for a variety of geohazards such as permafrost thaw, sinkhole formation, and landslides.»

B) There are several areas along the I - 5 corridor that are highly susceptible to landsliding for all soil saturation levels, such as the area shown here near the access point to the West Seattle bridge.

C) The hillsides in West Seattle along the Duwamish valley are at risk of seismically induced landsliding, such as the area shown here.

Although the city's buildings suffered extensive damage, there were few reports of ground failure, such as liquefaction and landslides.

But continued research on earthquake events such as those in Nepal may help improve the ability to identify areas most vulnerable to landslides, he said.

«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.

Tsunamis triggered by point - source events such as volcanic collapses or submarine landslides are not likely to have as wide an impact because the waves appear to dissipate quickly with distance.

Around 59 percent of them died as a result of the collapse of masonry buildings, and 28 % of them due to secondary effects such as tsunami or landslides.

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.

It used measurements from 195 core samples containing submarine landslide deposits caused by subduction zone earthquakes, instead of only about a dozen such samples in past research.

The finding may be particularly useful in identifying and characterizing landslides that occur in steep, remote areas where few people live — not because of their immediate effects, but because such slumps can block rivers and impound lakes that could later breach the natural dams and threaten populated areas downstream.

Seismic data may provide a way for scientists to quickly detect and characterize giant landslides that occur in remote regions, such as the one that hit northern Pakistan in January 2010, blocking a river and forming

Such power laws are known from other natural phenomena such as forest fires, landslides and earthquaSuch power laws are known from other natural phenomena such as forest fires, landslides and earthquasuch as forest fires, landslides and earthquakes.

Flying within 2,068 kilometers of Phoebe, the spacecraft found a «world of dramatic landforms, with craters everywhere, landslides, and linear structures such as grooves, ridges, and chains of pits,» says Cassini scientist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

He thinks that the erosion of landslide debris in such a storm's aftermath triggers a change in fault loading, eventually producing an earthquake.

Her interest extends to the «secondary» geohazards that ground shaking can cause, such as landslides and liquefaction.

Dr. Jerison studies systems governed by simple rules that nonetheless exhibit complex behaviors, such as phase transitions — for instance, when a slight temperature increase causes ice to melt into liquid water; and threshold phenomena — for instance, when a small extra deposit of soil causes a stable slope to topple over into a landslide.

Ground shaking: Ground shaking is both a hazard created by earthquakes and the trigger for other hazards such as liquefaction and landslides.

Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.

Like other phenomena, such as landslides or earthquakes, extremes in the carbon cycle depict a pronounced power - law behavior.

But they can also come with serious downsides, such as major flooding and landslides, as happened with the 1998 event.

To achieve this, special effort has been taken to set up the ebase where the structure will be least prone to be affected by natural calamities such as flash floods, landslides, and such.

As more and more states prohibit breed discriminatory laws, this would be a huge step back for community safety, and the rights of individuals, as well as starting a potential landslide of even more stringent forms of breed discrimination, such as bans, across the state.

Costa Rica's roads are full of hazards such as potholes, landslides, fog, and heavy rain and above all, fast, bad drivers.

And if a Republican were to win in 2016, the electoral map suggests getting even 60 such votes in the Senate — the Republicans will be defending the seats they won in the 2010 landslide — is unlikely.

Hanoi, Viet Nam, 26 February 2018 — In his welcome remarks to participants of the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) workshop, APN Secretariat Director, Mr. Seiji Tsutsui underscored that «Southeast Asia is a natural disaster - prone region, and it is predicted that disasters such as floods, typhoons, high - tides and landslides will be more extreme because of the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and increasing population concentration in urban areas.»

As a result of climate change, global temperatures are expected to continue to rise, resulting in sea level rise and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, landslides and storms.

The Vulnerability Index concentrates georeferenced maps and basic statistics to identified areas that are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as landslides, floods, heat waves and dengue fever.

Thus, according to present understanding, familiar events such as landslides and earthquakes release energy which has been stored as potential energy in the Earth's gravitational field, or elastic strain (mechanical potential energy) in rocks.»

With a rise in natural disasters such as super storms, storm surges, landslides and floods, we are regularly reminded of the need to make our cities safer and stronger.

Such changes threaten the health of the watershed ecosystem and put nearby human communities at greater risk for more severe natural disasters such as landslides and wildfiSuch changes threaten the health of the watershed ecosystem and put nearby human communities at greater risk for more severe natural disasters such as landslides and wildfisuch as landslides and wildfires.