Sentences with phrase «triggered previous waves»

Walling it off again would send it into a downward spiral of poverty and instability — precisely the conditions that triggered previous waves of illegal immigration.

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Norm Sleep of Stanford University and colleagues suggest that the impact, which occurred near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, could have generated massive seismic waves that triggered earthquakes as far away as Colorado, in the center of a tectonic plate where no previous fault had existed.

Outstanding questions include whether MJO events are commonly preceded by an earlier occurrence and, if so, what role the previous cycle plays in initiating a new MJO event; whether the processes that drive the moistening of the troposphere affect MJO behavior; and whether other large planetary waves — such as Rossby waves — can help trigger the next MJO.