Sentences with phrase «tsunami waves of»

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.

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.

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!

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

It would be easy to dismiss this as the latest boomlet in an industry famous for its cycles, were it not for a demographic tidal wave — the so - called silver tsunami — that has already begun: The retirement of America's 76 million baby boomers.

Most tragedies happen somewhere: the spot where the towers fell on 9/11, the beaches where the waves came ashore during the Asian tsunami, the sunflower fields where the pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell after it was blasted out of the Ukrainian sky last summer.

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.

Then there's the matter of the inevitable tsunami — with waves as high as 50 feet roaring on shore, reaching miles inland — that comes afterward.

She advised me to get a great lawyer and therapist for me and my kids to weather the endless waves of tsunami «s that would be coming my way... again and again and again.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

You use archeological and geological evidence to support your claim that a huge wave did rip through the middle east where noah was, the flood story evolved from that but then you have to deal with the issues of a tsunami large enough to reach noah from the indian ocean without destroying the entire world.

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.

Five months later, a Democrat takes Maisano's seat, and Democrats now have a blue wave tsunami, super-majority of 13 - 4 on the County Board.

And that tsunami like wave of Democratic retirees?

• Speaking of waves, Democrats will need a tsunami this year to take out Republican incumbent Chris Collins, who represents the most Republican congressional district in all of New York.

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

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.

Unlike a GPS method proposed last year, which detects seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's crust to distant receivers, the new ground - based system takes real - time measurements of vertical ground motion — the type of fault movement more likely to produce tsunamis (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2006JB004640).

Dr Usama Kadri, from Cardiff University's School of Mathematics, believes that lives could ultimately be saved by using acoustic - gravity waves (AGWs) against tsunamis that are triggered by earthquakes, landslides and other violent geological events.

However, this study has provided proof - of - concept that devastating tsunamis could be mitigated by using acoustic - gravity waves to redistribute the huge amounts of energy stored within the wave, potentially saving lives and billions of pounds worth of damage.»

«Up until now, little attention has been paid to trying to mitigate tsunamis and the potential of acoustic - gravity waves remains largely unexplored.»

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.

The tsunami of academic literature on tDCS has spurred a corresponding wave of media articles claiming jolts to the brain can improve memory, boost math skills and «bring out the genius in you.»

Now Kadri is imparting this new understanding of wave interactions to a critical application: tsunami detection.

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

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

But Fukushima Daiichi was doomed by a decision to plan for a maximum tsunami height of only 5.7 metres, well short of the wave of up to 15 metres that engulfed the plant on 11 March 2011.

Song's technique predicts the exact scale of a tsunami by tracking ground motions to estimate how much water has been displaced on the ocean floor — and, by extension, how much energy is feeding the wave.

«When earthquake - induced uplift occurs on the sea floor, it displaces the entire column of water above it and generates the wave that we call a tsunami,» she adds.

With memories of the tsunami that devastated the region in 2004 still fresh, residents fled from the coasts, not knowing whether waves were on their way.

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.

A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.

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.

Drawing on data streaming in from a multitude of sensors monitoring the world's water supply, for instance, the computer might learn to recognize changes in pressure, temperature, wave size and tides, then issue tsunami warnings, even though current science has yet to identify the constellation of variables associated with the monster waves.

Coming back from the field, I found out there wasn't a lot of information on what forces tsunamis impart on buildings, so we came up with a new type of tsunami generator to look at these waves.

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).

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 Centetsunami 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 Centetsunami wave activity, just a couple of centimetres, had been measured at two reading stations near the epicentre, the Pacific Tsunami Warning CenteTsunami Warning Center said.

In the tragic aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, scientists and warning centers are now better equipped to forecast and model these monstrous waves

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.

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

Laura Furgione, deputy assistant administrator of the National Weather Service, noted in a March 11 teleconference with reporters that the tsunami warnings had accurately forecast the 3:00 A.M. local arrival time of waves in Hawaii.

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?»

It serves as a crucial link, relaying messages from an innovative tsunami detector thousands of meters below the waves to satellites overhead that broadcast a warning to people.

«Considering that it took 30 minutes for the Thoku tsunami to attack the coast after the arrival of the seismic waves, we think that's good enough,» Sugioka says.

Gary M. McMurtry of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his colleagues conclude that the most likely way the shells could have reached such a lofty location was within the waves of a tsunami that attained the astonishing height of 300 meters along some Hawaiian coastlines.

But during a combined quake — tsunami, the structure must also be able to withstand the pounding of the waves, or what Yeh describes as «prolonged lateral forces.»

A TOOL that is the first to simulate a particular type of tsunami could improve our understanding of the devastating waves.

For instance, Tokyo has a 1 in 24 chance of a 5 - meter tsunami in the next millennium, while New York City faces 1 in 47 odds of similar waves.

A new study of the hazards posed by impact - generated waves suggests that coastlines face substantial risks of being slammed by tsunamis from asteroid spla

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