Sentence examples for before the tsunami hit from inspiring English sources

And the frantic work by city employees in the minutes before the tsunami hit almost certainly saved lives.

It was extremely controversial even in her own party, which had voted to prolong the lifetime of Germany's nuclear power plants just before the tsunami hit Japan.

The Bloomberg news agency has reported that a radiation alarm went off about a mile from the plant at 3.29pm, before the tsunami hit.

Questions also linger as to the extent of damage to the plant caused by the earthquake even before the tsunami hit.

It is one of the mysteries of Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis: How much damage did the 11 March earthquake inflict on the Fukushima Daiichi reactors before the tsunami hit?

The Independent has spoken to several workers at the plant who recite the same story: serious damage, to piping and at least one of the reactors, occurred before the tsunami hit.

I fear we may be at that moment just before the tsunami hits — when the birds take flight and the insects stop chirping because their acute senses can feel what is coming before humans can.

The biggest challenge would be evacuating everyone before the tsunami hits.

If a distant tsunami is detected, major cities are alerted a few hours or less before the tsunami hits.

Below, see photos of the same locations before and after the tsunami hit.

Although the tsunami hit before the start of the main growing season, pesticides may have been stockpiled in agricultural locations impacted by flooding (according to the U.K.-based Agricultural Information Services consultancy, Japan is the world's second-largest crop pesticide market after the United States, with 60% of those pesticides applied to rice ).