Sentence examples for because of tsunamis from inspiring English sources

"Border patrol wouldn't give us the truck because it had bullet holes in it", he said, adding that other delays came because of tsunamis, hailstorms, factories burning down, sinking ships and earthquakes.

Mr. Sato said that about half the rice acres his co-op's members hoped to plant this year might be off limits, either because of radiation or because of tsunami damage.

A small part of the meeting area west of the study area is seen an important place because of tsunami impact.

Moreover, the possibility that the boulders would be moved by storm waves with a 50-year return period is much greater than the possibility that the boulders would be moved by tsunamis, because the occurrence of tsunamis is rare near Lanyu Island.

Spiske et al. (2013) emphasized the significance of the preservation potential in assessing the intervals and frequencies of tsunamis, because tsunami deposits are not necessarily preserved in whole inundated areas.

However, there are also limitations in the prediction of tsunamis because we cannot neglect the possibility that strong ground motion can trigger a submarine landslide near the Korean coast that acts as a secondary tsunami source.

The presence of erosional forms is an indication of a huge wave that impacted the coast promontory with a high-energy flow; these types of forms have been observed and attributed to the effect of tsunamis because of their flooding plastic flow (water + debris) that could shape the bedrock even at a distance from the coastline.

The championships were to have begun Monday in Tokyo but was postponed because of the earthquake and tsunami.

Several GEONET sites along the coast ceased operation because of devastating tsunamis, so we have not obtained the spatially detailed ground deformation along the coast due to the sparseness of observation density (GSI, 2011a).

The optimal values seem equivalent for both giant tsunamis, and are relatively smaller than those previously verified for ocean tide modeling, which is reasonable because of the shorter wavelengths of tsunamis.

High-accuracy age estimations of tsunami deposits are very important for tsunami deposit research because the recurrence interval and frequency of tsunami deposits allow us to assess the devastating impacts of tsunamis in a populated country such as Japan.