Sentences with phrase «tsunami hit regions»

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Just over one year ago, a magnitude - 9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years.

The coastal region of Tohoku was one of the hardest hit, with tsunami waves as high as 40 meters sending floods up to 10 kilometers inland.

Jungers speculates that a giant tsunami like the one that hit the region in 2004 swept them out to sea.

The region investigated in this study is of great interest because in the past it has repeatedly been hit by devastating earthquakes and tsunamis.

More recently, an earthquake of magnitude of about 7.0 hit the Messina region in Italy in 1908, causing a tsunami that killed thousands, with observed waves locally exceeding 10 metres in height.

Dunham was staying in a small coastal village called Unawatuna when she became one of the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by a massive tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and other countries in the region.

The earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011 were what prompted Japanese authorities to create such special teams, but the first VMAT team was only formed in Fukuoka in 2013.

Or believe it or not, there could have been a complete meltdown of several nuclear reactors in an earthquake and tsunami - hit region...

Parts of the earth that are now rarely affected by tsunamis, such as northern coastal regions, could be hit by «glacial earthquakes,» in which glacier ice crashes to earth in massive landslides.