Sentences with phrase «tsunami waves across»

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

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.

Not exact matches

The ripples from Wesminster are being felt across the whole of the UK and through financial starvation, the removal of the rights of workers, pay freezes and pay reductions and increased pension costs those ripples are turning into the waves of a destructive of tsunami.

Instead, based on waves seen at Fukushima in 1960, generated by a magnitude - 9.5 quake across the Pacific in Chile, the plant's designers initially assumed that the worst - case scenario was a 3.1 - metre tsunami.

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

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 contrast to more common shallow and deep earthquakes, a subduction zone quake will generate a destructive tsunami, a series of waves up to 30 feet (10 m) high that will hit the Cascadia coast and travel across the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska, Hawaii and Asia.

(That tsunami was strong enough to be noted and recorded by historians across the Pacific in Japan; here's a simulation of the waves.)