Sentences with phrase «tsunami hit»

Hours later, the tsunami hit Hawaii and warnings blanketed the Pacific, as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West Coast.

And although their use as a disaster response has been questioned, they've proven to be a useful resource when a tsunami hit Chile last year and a group of students from a local university was able to re-build a local school in a devastated town in only four weeks.A fishing town of 3,000 people, Tubul is located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south - west from Santiago, and was one of the areas most affected by the earthquake and tsunami.

We landed on Midway exactly one year after the tsunami hit.

Some debris from the tsunami hit Midway soon after the event, though it wasn't from Japan.

In 1992, a devastating tsunami hit the coastal resort of El Transito on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.

It's been almost seven years since the tsunami hit, and Phuket is decidedly back in business.

When a tsunami hit Japan on March 11, 2011, the nest of the oldest documented living bird was in its path.

However, for the great majority of us who have little knowledge of the current political and religious situation in Indonesia (and, if we're honest, would probably have been hard pressed to find it on a map until the Tsunami hit in December 2004), the combination of travelogue and political journalism is both relevant and interesting.

For the Laysan albatross project, she couldn't go to Midway for the entire life cycle of the birds; and of course, she wasn't there right after the tsunami hit.

Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Geraldine Chapman Program: Special Presentations Headline: Not a dry eye (or a dry anything, really) Noel's Take: It's been five years since J.A. Bayona debuted with the terrifying - yet - tearjerking ghost story The Orphanage, and now he's finally back in the director's chair with The Impossible, based on the true story of a family that was visiting Thailand in 2004 with the Indian Ocean tsunami hit.

That came under harsh scrutiny after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011.

Exactly 1 week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and knocked out critical nuclear fuel cooling capabilities at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Amano was here to urge the Japanese government to more fully cooperate in sharing information with IAEA and the world community.

The Government has announced an increase in aid to Tsunami hit countries, making the UK the largest national relief donor in the world.

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When the tsunami hit Asia, weren't those caught in that wall of water right to be afraid?

Four days after a tsunami hit some of the smaller islands in Indonesia, the death toll has risen to 413, with nearly 300 people still missing.

I heard some say that is why the tsunami hit them.

They didn't review how information flowed before, during or after the tsunami hit.

What do we do after a tsunami hits?

Finally, Satake's written records of a tsunami hitting villages all along eastern Japan nailed the date: Cascadia's last monster quake happened on January 26, 1700, at 9 p.m..

The Impossible (PG - 13 for brief nudity, disturbing images and intense disaster sequences) Fact - based drama, set in Thailand, recounting a family's real - life struggle for survival after a tsunami hits the oceanfront resort where they're vacationing.

Before the tsunami hits, we see the «paradise» perception of Heaven, from the perspective of tourists on vacation.

Based on a true story, a young family is vacationing in Southeast Asia when a brutal tsunami hits their resort, changing their lives forever.

A New Year's Eve celebration goes very wrong when a tsunami hits the cruise ship on «The Poseidon Adventure.»

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

When the tsunami hits, there will be nothing left on the beach of civilization.

A good thing since they're taking down their nuclear capacity before the next tsunami hits (I know, not nice).

Before a tsunami hits shore, there is a precursor stage where it looks like the sea is appearing to retreat.

When that 30 year overdue Cascadia earthquake / tsunami hits, everything up to a mile in will be eliminated.

Not exact matches

Greg Spriggs, a nuclear - weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said a 50 - megaton weapon «could possibly induce a tsunami» and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650 - kiloton blast.

A hotel was unveiled at a theme park in Nagasaki, Japan that could save up to 100 people per room if a tsunami were to hit.

The 2011 tsunami spurred some of this change, as the harder - hit companies had to slash costs to survive.

Morgan Stanley's firing of Harold Ford, Jr. shows the sexual assault tsunami could soon hit more of Wall Street, says Jake Novak.

As of this writing, there have not been any reports of damage or tsunami warnings, but the earthquake hit at 2:37 a.m. local time, and the story is still developing.

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

If another earthquake causes another tsunami, all the stored radioactive water could be released into the ocean and the containment buildings could be left in even much worse shape than they were after the first hit.

Japan forced to restrict power usage after the loss of the Fukushima Dai - ichi plant hit by the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

I realized how profoundly these fears had affected my life the week that Reformed pastor John Piper declared that the tornado that hit downtown Minneapolis (like the Asian tsunami of 2004, the Minneapolis bridge collapse of 2007, and even his own cancer) was an act of divine judgment toward the sinners involved.

Not long before I was to preach my sermon, East Asia was hit by a monstrous tsunami that caused death on an unimaginable scale.

A meteor hits, a volcano erupts, an earthquake happens, tornados, tsunamis, tidal waves.

The corporate groups can hit Sydney like a tsunami.

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With his Summer off Ronaldo visited the tsunami - hit communities of Banda Aceh before heading off on United's Far - East Tour, and signing a new contract that will keep him at the club for many years to come.

Then came Day 3 when the tsunami of emotions, discomfort & milk coming in hit its peak.

British embassies and consulates went on high alert as a massive earthquake hit Japan and threatened tsunamis across the Pacific Basin.

Gordon Brown has warmly welcomed the agreement of the G7 countries to suspend the collection of debt repayments from the countries hit by the Asian tsunami.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

Delegates on April 13 voted unanimously to send donations to aid relief efforts in Japan following the powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11 and the nuclear damage that followed.

Another political «tsunami» has hit the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Benue South yesterday as its top leaders defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Already support for the main parties is fraying at the edges — witness the results of the European Parliament elections in 2009, after Britain had been hit by the financial tsunamis from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Northern Rock.