Sentences with phrase «tsunami waves»

Smaller tsunami waves were observed on the coast or measured by ocean gauges in several other places.

The show will involve 30 tonnes of newspaper, arranged in huge tsunami waves across the space.

When the massive tsunami waves of the 2011 eastern Japan earthquake rolled back out to sea, they pulled with them fragments of docks, boats, and buoys that sometimes contained living stowaways.

Retroactively, the models accurately predicted the seafloor uplift seen in the earthquake, which is directly related to tsunami wave heights, and also simulated sound waves that propagated within the ocean.

On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 18:54:33 ET, an 8.3 - magnitude earthquake struck Chile triggering other earthquake related incidents including tsunami waves in Hawaii and Southern California.

They are different from tsunami waves that can travel great distances after being created by underwater earthquakes or landslides.

The quake's epicenter was 175 miles east of Kamaishi, and not far from the 9.0 - magnitude blast that sent tsunami waves racing toward Fukushima in 2011.

The 8.9 magnitude quake stirred up massive tsunami waves that battered coastal cities, especially along the east coast north of Tokyo.

It will send a train of deadly tsunami waves across the Pacific and crippling shock waves across a far wider geographic area than all the California quakes you've ever heard about.

Backup power generation systems at the Fukushima - Daiichi complex similarly failed when tsunami waves over-topped sea walls and other flood protection structures....

McNamara is one of two people in the world to surf tsunami waves created by calving glaciers.

Posted: 9/17/2015 On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 18:54:33 ET, an 8.3 - magnitude earthquake struck Chile triggering other earthquake related incidents including tsunami waves in Hawaii and Southern California.

«This information is often used in numerical modeling of landslide - generated tsunami waves.»

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

Sure enough, rumbles that produced high - frequency waves for more than 50 seconds had a high probability of generating a damaging tsunami wave.

Rossetto has been leading a collaborative effort to create a better experimental setup for generating model tsunami waves in the lab, something she had been told was impossible due to tsunamis» extremely long wavelengths.

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.

A tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu was cancelled after only very small tsunami wave activity, just a couple of centimetres, had been measured at two reading stations near the epicentre, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

This graphic shows the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's predictions of the maximum heights of tsunami waves caused by the March 11 earthquake near Sendai, Japan.

So after a 9.0 - magnitude earthquake and tsunami waves struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant on 11 March 2011, it was no wonder that one of Asimo's fans tweeted, «Can't Asimo be dispatched to survey the interior of Unit 4, where radiation is too high for human workers?»

The collapsing material would push seawater into towering tsunami waves that could threaten coastal cities along the entire Pacific Rim.

«The main gap in relevant knowledge in tsunami modelling is what happens when tsunami waves approach the nearshore and run inland,» says Achilleas Samaras, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy.

The results show how tsunami waves could hit and inundate coastal areas in southern Italy and Greece.

As Japan suffered the worst earthquake in the country's recorded history, tsunami waves fanned out across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jetliner

Modelling the potential tsunami for a sudden «mass failure» on this scale yields a three - dimensional tsunami wave elevation of about 27 metres.

«Underwater landslides tend to create shorter period tsunami waves, and they tend to concentrate their energy in a small stretch of coastline,» said Grilli.

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For example: please re-access the urgency to tweet your outfit post on your new flared jeans while a 30 - foot tsunami wave is washing away a whole Japanese village.

People in Indonesia, Philippines, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Micronesia, Taiwan and even Hawaii are on alert for tsunami waves.

It's so important to realize (1) that in this brave new world of publishing, all options are open and (2) that success is rare, there are very few Amanda Hockings in the new tsunami wave of self - pubbed authors!

Pinterest animations of Hokusai's famous tsunami wave fill the screen, followed swiftly by shots of fearless surfers wiping out in the most giant of tubes.

«The ecosystem services have actually been valued at $ 3 billion — meaning that the protection that these reefs give against tsunami waves, against coastal erosion is a dollar figure that we can never engineer anything as effective as our reefs, and in order for them to work, they have to be healthy,» said Richmond.

Still early, but here are the details we know from USGS: Magnitude 8.0 — 96 km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico Time 2017-09-08 04:49:17 (UTC) Location15.029 ° N 93.807 ° W Depth 35.0 km From the Pacific tsunami warning center: TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST ---------------- * HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE HOURS ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO... GUATEMALA... EL...

An Indian Ocean earthquake sends tsunami waves to distant coasts.

The 9.0 earthquake that rocked the Far Eastern nation and spurred the deadly tsunami waves has left thousands of people dead and far more still unaccounted for.

Early results from NEPTUNE Canada include seismometer readings from the Chilean earthquake in February, and bottom - pressure sensor results that tracked the small tsunami waves it generated.

They typically last only 20 seconds or so before disappearing, and are different from tsunami waves that can travel great distances after being created by underwater earthquakes or landslides.

Moreover, tsunami waves in the Mediterranean need to travel only a very short distance before hitting the coast, reaching it with little advance warning.

The tsunami waves, not the earthquake, were what caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility to melt down.

Somehow, I knew I was going to die, and somehow, I knew that the tsunami wave represented God.

Hosni Mubarak's resignation resurrected a tsunami wave of articles and commentaries on whether Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood would now come to power.

Just think a tsunami wave times a lot more.

Sometimes joy may be spontaneous and exuberant, washing over you like a tsunami wave as your baby sleeps in your arms and you hear her breathing.

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

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

This is a consequence of the wavelengths of impact - tsunami waves, which are between that of storm waves (tens of meters) and earthquake tsunamis (hundreds of kilometers).