Sentences with phrase «tsunami waves caused»

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.

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

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.

In a paper published in the journal Heliyon, Dr Kadri proposes that if we can find a way to engineer these waves, they can be fired at an incoming tsunami and will react with the wave in such a way that reduces its amplitude, or height, and causes its energy to be dissipated over a large area.

Submarine earthquakes and landslides can cause tsunamis, so these monster waves may have been more common as sea levels rose.

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.

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.

Garces has also analyzed the low - frequency sound waves accompanying the seafloor earthquake that caused the 2004 Indonesian tsunami for premonitory clues.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

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.

This bundle includes 18 ready - to - use Tsunami worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about a Tsunami which is a series of fast moving waves in the ocean caused by powerful earthquakes or volcanic eruptions

After Tohoku, my guess is most Japanese construction will be above that tidal wave elevation, as the ancient stone warnings from the Cascadia event of January 26, 1700 (dated not by Amerindians but by the Japanese tsunami it caused.)

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The March 2011, 8.9 - magnitude quake off the coast of Japan that caused a tsunami, waves that reached California within twelve hours, moved the island of Japan by about eight feet, and shifted the Earth on its axis by about four inches, this is an example of the magnitude of natural forces — mostly unappreciated by humanity — that are continuously shaping Earth's climate.