Sentences with phrase «tsunami waves struck»
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?»
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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, issued alerts for Chile and Peru, and predicted that waves would strike Hawaii, New Zealand and Japan.
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.
Speaking of automobiles, everyone's eyes would have been glued in astonishment to their TV screens when the live images were broadcast of the gigantic waves simultaneously striking the Pacific coast at the time of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Anyone who is active in tsunami hazards would had known that far smaller earthquakes than the one that struck Japan generate waves producing inland flooding of up to six meters height about once every two years, on average, somewhere in the world.
What strikes me as funny is this: There are no tsunamis hundreds of miles from the coast, obviously, so the government constructs test situations in which a hydro power station further upstream fails fatally and the resulting wave then floods the reactor.
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.