Sentences with phrase «tsunami which»

The first stage of the apocalypse in the actual game is a tsunami which washes away an entire town.

In 2004 the same boxing day tsunami which wreaked havoc on much smaller Koh Phi Phi, also hit Phuket and did some major damage there too.

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

This natural event initiated a 98 ft high Tsunami which went on to kill an estimated 230,000 people in 14 different countries.

... Nobody can avoid a tsunami which is a natural phenomenon; if has to occur, it will.»

The only resources that are needed are some texts or books on earthquakes and tsunamis which can include websites.

And one last thing: I'd be remiss writing this Japan - centric Play More Games without mentioning that, even though I'm across the globe, I'm still reeling from the news of the terrible earthquake and tsunamis which struck Japan last week.

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No tsunami warning was issued for Indonesia, which is located in the earthquake - prone Ring of Fire.

The nuclear power industry, another area on which Hitachi has set its sights, is still recovering from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

SpatialKey: In February 2018, the Denver - based company, which provides a geospatial insurance analytics platform, integrated Swiss Re's CatNet hazard data directly into SpatialKey, giving insurers using the platform access to 10 hazards including flood, earthquake, tsunami, wind, and hail.

In comparison, though, Uber's troubles today are more like a tsunami, which is likely to make it more difficult to attract a top name.

The Stock Market Crash of October 1987 is indelible in the minds of most veteran investors as a «Financial Tsunami» that came out of nowhere — which rocked Wall Street to its foundations.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

Floods, tsunamis, droughts, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes and even plagues are some of the ways by which nature's immune system seeks to shout out — to cleanse and balance itself on earth.

Around the world, people are still struggling to come to terms with the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which have left more than 8,000 dead, thousands more missing and hundreds of thousand others homeless.

If we want to survive these storms, steps must be taken and homes must be built which will stand strong in the earthquakes and tsunami's of life.

I can not accept the idea that God sends all storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, famines, earthquakes, tsunamis, and a host of other disasters which kill thousands of people, causes terrible destruction, and leads to massive sickness and sadness.

Which is no small thing, truly, but cold comfort in the face of holocausts or tsunamis, the deaths of parents or children.

I have just returned from the swamps of Sumatra, which was packed full of crocs that have been feeding off the 65,000 human corpses from the tsunami and which now have the taste of flesh.

None of the above will happen to Arsenal who are still billed to finish 1st on the table and lift the title trophy with Leicester and Spurs looking helpless, hopeless and dejected and unable to do anything to stop the football tsunami that have swept them off their feet from this weekend which wno» t abate until the end of this BPL season.

From his 2011 Japanese GP special helmet, which was auctioned off to raise money for those caught up in the tsunami earlier in the year, to his yellow one raced with during his title - winning Brawn GP year.

You have nightmares about Tsunamis just from watching the preview of a movie in which a family gets swept away from one another.

There are grave concerns about the effect of the ensuing tsunami on less developed countries such as Indonesia, which was devastated by a similar event in 2004.

Flanagan can read the polls like anybody else which warn of an anti-Trump tsunami at the ballot box this fall.

It could create a situation where the next tsunami or earthquake is not met with the type of outpouring of generosity which we're used to.

During the extended discussion at the SXSW «Digital Tsunami» panel (in which GM's Christopher Barger also discussed corporate public relations in a networked age), NPR's social media guru Andy Carvin mentioned that he didn't want the network's reporters to be on Twitter just because «the cool kids» in the journalistic set were doing it — he wanted them to use Twitter if and because it made them better reporters.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

Entergy insists Indian Point's reactors can easily withstand the sort of low - magnitude quakes that occur in the Northeast, which are nothing compared to the 8.9 monster that ravaged Northern Japan, causing a massive tsunami.

According to him, even though the governor has the credentials to be president, given his outstanding performance as governor which earned him a re-election in the face of Muhammadu Buhari's «tsunami» in the north, he has not told anybody that he would run for the post in 2019.

«Essentially we have the beginning of a tsunami, where literally we could have a hole in our community with the closing of Sophie Finn and the closing of the Kingston Hospital campus right next door which I can see every day from my office,» said Gallo during a press conference which — as he paced back and forth in the Common Council chambers before an audience of reporters, community members and at least four school board trustees — seemed at times similar to the delivery of an opening argument at trial.

Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture are no longer on the unified election cycle due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which delayed their elections.

Why it mattered: This tsunami of sleaze prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo to propose a slate of reforms, which lawmakers ignored.

Of nearly 300 living animal and protist species documented on the debris, which crossed the Pacific Ocean following Japan's destructive 2011 tsunami, researchers analyzed in detail 237 species, which include larger invertebrates and two fish.

A string of unprecedented natural disasters, including hurricanes like Katrina and tsunamis like that which devastated Japan, has made many people rethink the wisdom of moving to the coast

In order to use AGWs in tsunami mitigation, engineers will firstly need to devise highly accurate AGW frequency transmitters or modulators, which Dr Kadri concedes would be challenging.

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).

The maps are based largely upon the 1946 tsunami, which followed a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands and caused water to rise only two and a half meters (8 feet) up the side of the Makauwahi sinkhole.

The investigation was requested by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is concerned about the potential impact tsunamis might have on new and existing nuclear power plants, especially in light of the devastating tsunami in Japan in March that sparked the greatest nuclear disaster in years.

Like many scientists in Japan, Tamura is both anxious over disrupted research plans and heartbroken at the human toll of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left nearly half a million homeless.

There is a tsunami every month that could be cured by penicillin, for which there are no images and no reporting.

Haiti's quake has also demonstrated that strike - slip faults, which create mostly horizontal motions, can set off landslides and giant tsunamis (usually associated with faults that move in a vertical, thrusting motion).

«We have developed accurate and powerful numerical tools which are able to compute these dangerous tsunami - type waves,» says Roeber.

The design, which features reinforcements at the base of a large stilted building to help prevent damage from powerful tsunamis, aims to provide a new city hall and vertical - escape shelter for 1,500 people

«We were able to date the layer to the early 1700s, which is consistent with the known Nankai Trough tsunami event of record from 1707,» Baranes says.

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.

This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when faulted rock abruptly shoves the ocean out of its way.

Even after the situation was brought under relative control over subsequent days and weeks, public concern hung on the threat of radiation almost more than it did than on the tsunami and earthquake themselves, which had killed more than 15,850 people and displaced at least 340,000 more.

That enabled geologists to make before - and - after assessments of how the seafloor rearranged itself in the Sumatra - Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, which triggered the awful Indian Ocean tsunami.

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).