Sentences with phrase «tsunami swept»

I touched on this shortly after the tsunami swept the Indian Ocean, in a piece called «The Future of Calamity.»

The 2011 east Japan tsunami swept huge amounts of wreckage out to sea — and Japanese species hitchhiked across the Pacific on the debris.

These generators were inundated with water 45 minutes later when the 15 - metre tsunami swept over the sea wall, which had been built to withstand a maximum wave height of only 5.7 metres.

Five out of six of its reactors lost electricity when a 14 - meter tall tsunami swept in 40 minutes later.

Not exact matches

Economics: 1) Financial Tsunami — The global financial restructuring that seemingly swept out of nowhere, wiping out trillions of dollars of assets, in a matter of months.

Petra Nemcova, who herself was swept away by the tsunami and survived by clinging to a tree for eight hours, established Happy Hearts Fund in 2005.

I can say that I believe there is a 100 ft tsunami about to sweep away my house, but if sit calmly in my chair and do nothing about it, I am showing through my actions that I really don't believe it after - all.

If there was a huge meteor impact in the indian ocean by a comet, it would create a humongous tsunami that would sweep miles inland....

Or are they going to be swept away in the tsunami?

My own archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, has pointed out that our weak instruction in the faith over recent decades has left Catholics poorly prepared to deal with the «tsunami of secularism» that has swept over our culture.

None of the above will happen to Arsenal who are still billed to finish 1st on the table and lift the title trophy with Leicester and Spurs looking helpless, hopeless and dejected and unable to do anything to stop the football tsunami that have swept them off their feet from this weekend which wno» t abate until the end of this BPL season.

You have nightmares about Tsunamis just from watching the preview of a movie in which a family gets swept away from one another.

The slow - motion foreign - cash tsunami that swept over the city during Mike Bloomberg's latter years endures — guaranteeing de Blasio dough to buy labor peace and arming him with the big bucks needed to keep the city's legion of special - interest pleaders at bay.

Bronx state senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson got swept up in the Thomas tsunami.

A few weeks earlier, the most powerful tsunami in decades had swept across Southeast Asia.

And at their meeting in February, they also considered geologic evidence that a big tsunami in 869 C.E. had swept several kilometers inland across the same coastal plain inundated in March.

The wave swept away entire houses and was reminiscent of the tsunami waves that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

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.

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

Cascading lava slammed into the ocean, destroying all aquatic life in its path, and creating tsunamis nearly fifteen feet high which swept away everything within their reach.

But especially they planned to address the overarching trend of aging, which some researchers are calling «the gray tsunami» because it threatens to inundate the world's health - care systems and sweep away today's social, political, and economic norms.

The earthquake and tsunami knocked out outside power to the reactor complex and the tidal wave also disabled backup diesel generators, whose fuel tanks were swept away.

Rossetto's research aims to understand how tsunamis behave as they sweep ashore and how to make coastal infrastructure more resistant to their devastating effects.

But debris swept out to sea by the tsunami is impeding work.

They hitched rides on debris swept up by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

Tidal Waves Strike: An earthquake near the northern Japanese provinces of Iwate, Miagi and Aomari sent a giant tidal wave (now called a tsunami) sweeping ashore.

The shock wave is a thin area found at the boundary between a supernova and the colder material around it that has a turbulent magnetic field that sweeps up plasma into a steep tsunami - like wave of plasma.

Full quote: «Independent film, the foundation and everybody here today, I think are holdouts against a tsunami of superhero movies that have swept over this industry.

The tsunami of stories out sexual harassment continues to sweep through the entertainment industry and Women in Film Los Angeles is launching a sexual harassment hot line to help those who have suffered unwanted sexual attention for decades to overcome the trauma.

In this article, I will share my understanding of how Instructional Designers have to evolve to meet the challenges posed by the Digital Transformation tsunami that has swept the world today.

For those who thought STEM (science - technology - engineering - mathematics) education was going to get swept away in the educational tsunamis of economic stimulus, core curriculum debates, student performance concerns, and a new national emphasis on achievement and innovation, guess again.

The digital technology tsunami that swept the music industry is already engulfing book publishing.

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Apart from that, you can also reach the tsunami memorial which was laid down by Tonsai Bay to remember those that were affected by the devastating Tsunami that swept the shores of Thtsunami memorial which was laid down by Tonsai Bay to remember those that were affected by the devastating Tsunami that swept the shores of ThTsunami that swept the shores of Thailand.

Meanwhile, Hatakeyama's poignant photographs of his tsunami - swept hometown convey the opposite: nature's absolute control over culture.

Updated, Dec. 27, 5:13 p.m. In the decade since a great sub-sea earthquake off Sumatra swept the Indian Ocean and killed more than 230,000 people, Costas Synolakis, the director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, has been one of my go - to guides to efforts to gird societies against such hazards.

Had the diesel generators not been swept away as they were during the ensuing tsunami, there would had been emergency power long enough to have allowed a smooth shut down of the reactor and sufficient cooling.

Conservationists say the hippo, named Owen, had been swept away from his family by strong waves that rocked the coast after a tsunami.

We were saddened by the news that thousands of nesting albatross had been swept away by the tsunami.

As well, I've been swept up in the tsunami of social media, just like you; it's had an overwhelming impact on ALL of us: job seekers, people who are happily employed, business owners, corporations — everyone!