Sentences with phrase «tsunami killed»

The tsunami killed about 230,000 people, not just in Indonesia but in countries across South Asia and even East Africa too.

The Chilean earthquake also sent waves racing across the Pacific, inducing alerts throughout the Pacific Rim and causing evacuations in Hawaii, where officials remembered the 1960 earthquake, when a tsunami killed 61 people in the coastal town of Hilo.

In less than two weeks, it will be five years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami killed over 15,000 people and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Biak residents had reason to regret the geologic novelty: the February quake and the resulting 20 - foot tsunami killed 100 and washed away more than 600 homes.

The tsunami killed at least five people and damaged homes in several villages, according to a Reuters news...

The quake and resulting tsunami killed an estimated 20,000.

Whatever you think about the visual imagery, the message --» The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11.

When the tectonic plates slipped in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and the resulting tsunami killed a quarter million people, was that caused by man's innate fallen nature?

Not exact matches

Earthquakes, Volcanos, Tsunamis, Famine, Pestulence, and those that will seek to kill all Christians.

A newborn baby is killed in a tsunami, or an earthquake, or whatever.

After all we are lead to believe by some religious «leaders» that earth quakes and tsunamis are sent and kill thousands for just a simple thing as embracing gay folks.

On Tuesday, the governor of Tokyo apologized for saying the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of Japanese were divine retribution for national egoism.

Have you ever noticed that He sends tsunamis and tornados often and doesn't give a flying hoot who they kill?

When I hear the expression, «God is in control,» I tend to think about the Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in 2004, the countless women who have been raped in the Congo over the last few days, and the many children who will die of hunger and preventable disease this year.

But then, what does this mean for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, or the December 26, 2004 tsunami that killed almost 250,000 people?

I can not accept the idea that God sends all storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, famines, earthquakes, tsunamis, and a host of other disasters which kill thousands of people, causes terrible destruction, and leads to massive sickness and sadness.

A localized tsunami has killed 23 people and left over 160 missing on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

As if having a tsunami that has killed 272 people and left over 400 missing wasn't bad enough: 25 people have been confirmed dead by a volcanic eruption on another Indonesian island.

Your god doesn't care about childhood cancer, or Alzheimer Disease, or killing hundreds of thousands of people in tsunamis — your god cares about what people wear?

Free will, even if humans have it, is not responsible for earthquakes, tsunamis, Hurricanes, pathogens etc., that kill and cause suffering for thousands.

... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the tsunami that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....

Among the millions travelling, some die naturally, get killed / injured or fall into difficulties: tsunamis, terrorist attacks, robberies, lost passports, aircraft / train / car accidents, sex traps, arrests and so on.

The Metropolitan Police is facing growing calls from the families of murder victims, those killed in terrorist attacks and those who died in natural disasters, such as the Indonesian tsunami, to disclose if they were targets.

When a massive earthquake struck Japan in 2011, it created a tsunami that killed thousands.

It triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people and an ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

«Given the evidence we have in hand, we are more convinced than before that this person was either violently killed by a tsunami, or had their grave ripped open by one — leading to their head but not the rest of their body being naturally reburied where it then remained undiscovered in the ground for some 6,000 or so years,» explains Goff.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

Scientists studying the effects of tsunamis have now shed light on what could be the earliest record of a person killed in a tsunami: someone who lived 6,000 years ago in what's now Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific.

Like many scientists in Japan, Tamura is both anxious over disrupted research plans and heartbroken at the human toll of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left nearly half a million homeless.

In 2004, as a massive tsunami roiled through the Indian Ocean killing hundreds of thousands of people, a dozen or so scientists quietly confronted an impending disaster potentially even more lethal.

The disaster spawned a mud tsunami that buried villages downstream, killing at least 13 people.

Slamming into the ocean, Apophis could create a tsunami dwarfing the one that killed more than 200,000 people around Indonesia.

On 26 December 2004, a massive tsunami devastated Indonesia's coastal city of Banda Aceh, levelling nearly half of the city and killing an estimated 160,000 people across the province.

Early reports suggest at least five people have been killed and millions have been evacuated from the nearby Chilean coast, as Tsunami warnings spread around the Pacific.

The magnitude 9.2 quake and the tsunami that it triggered killed more than 250,000 people, flattened villages, and swept homes out to sea across Southeast Asia.

Even after the situation was brought under relative control over subsequent days and weeks, public concern hung on the threat of radiation almost more than it did than on the tsunami and earthquake themselves, which had killed more than 15,850 people and displaced at least 340,000 more.

This week a massive quake off the coast of Chile killed six and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate in fear of a tsunami.

Both tsunamis had waves between 50 and 120 meters tall, and flooded up to 1 million square kilometers — roughly the same area affected by the tsunami caused by the dinosaur - killing asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago.

The 2004 Sumatra - Andaman tsunami was the most devastating in recorded history, killing more than 225,000 people, including thousands of tourists.

The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 killed a quarter of million people with waves reaching 15 metres.

The resulting tsunami destroyed ancient cities in Greece, Italy and Egypt, killing some 5000 people in Alexandria alone.

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.

The massive shockwaves and accompanying tsunami of the 2010 Maule, Chile, earthquake (magnitude 8.8) killed more than 300 people, affected nearly 2 million others, and damaged or destroyed approximately half a million homes, schools, hospitals and other buildings.

A tsunami that followed the quake also wreaked havoc, killed a researcher involved in an ecology expedition to Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile's coast.

On 25 October last year, around 500 inhabitants of the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra were killed, despite timely warnings, in a tsunami triggered by a «slow» undersea rupture of the Sunda «megathrust».

Scientists studying the effects of tsunamis have now shed light on what could be the earliest record of a person killed in a tsunami: someone who lived 6,000 years ago in the southwest Pacific.

Roland Emmerich's eco-conscious disaster picture features breakout performances by the twisters that suck up the «Hollywood» sign, the killing frost that covers the Statue of Liberty with icicles and the tsunami that swamps Manhattan.

This natural event initiated a 98 ft high Tsunami which went on to kill an estimated 230,000 people in 14 different countries.

This compelling account of the destruction of Krakatoa, a volcano - island that erupted in 1883, examines the effects of the disaster, which triggered a tsunami that killed close to 40,000 people.

The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano - island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster — was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people.