Sentences with phrase «waves reach the shore»

Where a reef is broken, more waves reach the shore, leading to more sand erosion and further damage to the reef.

Undulation is a two - part piece; one half documenting the physical repetitive action of getting out of bed every day for a year and parallel to that, a reduced time - lapse video of ocean waves reaching the shore.

Not exact matches

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.

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

The rough, complex structures of coral reefs dissipate wave energy through friction, calming waves before they reach the shore.

From capturing wind and wave energy off our shores to harnessing human energy from the floors of Grand Central Terminal or tapping heat under the earth's crust, there are exciting developments on the outer reaches of our imagination.

The claim of a 270 - meter run up, which is a measure of the elevation above sea level a wave reaches on shore, is «certainly possible,» says James Goff, a paleotsunami expert at University of New South Wales, Sydney, in Australia.

The model showed how those sound waves would have traveled through the water and indicated that they reached shore 15 to 20 minutes before the tsunami.

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - A woman swims into rough waves near rocks to rescue her dog that seems to be stuck in heavy undertow and we see the dog disappear under the water's surface, and the woman as well when her husband struggles to reach her; another man pulls the husband to the shore, but he goes back in and does not come back out leaving their young child crying on the beach (we see the baby again later in the dark and continuing to cry on the beach).

One of the north shore's most iconic surfing spots, crescent shaped Waimea Bay reached the pinnacle of its big wave fame in the mid-1980s with the inaugural Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, which has been held only nine times — conditions have to be perfect to create the enormous swells required to hold the invitational.

Here is Jaws on the north shore of Maui - home to Hawaii's largest surf - able waves that are known to reach heights of 75 + ft during the big winter storms.

Gale force winds reaching up to 70 km an hour can throw massive 15 foot waves (waves don't hit the shore at the same height as they are just a litte ways offshore.)

The surfing craze reached the shores of Canggu, north of Kuta and Seminyak, due to the discovery of favourable waves and terrific beachfront locations.

The waters are clean and clear and the waves of the Atlantic reach its shores, making it a great spot for windsurfing and other water sports.

«Animating,» the final section of the exhibition, covers the first half of the 20th century, in which the wave of European modernism reached American shores and changed our imperatives once again.