Sentence examples for big tsunami from inspiring English sources

"After such a big tsunami," he said, "maybe this whole area ends up under the sea.

"Japan is not outside the path of this big tsunami, nor can it escape".

You know how you watch these movies where you see this big tsunami coming toward you?

Joy Machado in Kekaha, Kauai, said she had a feeling while watching the news on Friday night that a big tsunami could hit on Saturday.

Mr. Corcoran said that education — about escape routes, planning and contingencies — is what would save lives in a big tsunami, not a screaming noise from the beach.

"If such a big tsunami comes, we will simply have to take the children on our backs and run for our lives".

But it was only after that meeting, at the bidding of the group, that he began work on a position paper compiling evidence on the danger of big tsunamis caused by earthquakes near Sumatra.

"The basic conclusion, then, appears to be that big tsunamis vary in recurrence [time], from only 60 years to about 2000 years," Sieh writes in an e-mail.

"Considering that big tsunamis strike the area perhaps once every hundred years, combined with deep geological time, I think that the chance of undeliberate sea crossings by early humans are significant," he says.

Big tsunamis are created by faults underwater.

A chorus of young voices told me that it was the high-water mark for the area's biggest tsunami: more than 50 feet above the valley floor.