Sentence examples for catastrophic hazards from inspiring English sources
Secondary dust explosions in coal mines or industrial settings are known to cause greater catastrophic hazards than the coupled primary explosions themselves.
On the Chinese side, the headwaters of the Mekong, the Indus, and the Brahmaputra are all being transformed by huge hydro projects, with unknown consequences for the rivers and incalculable potential for catastrophic hazards.
These catastrophic hazards became obvious following the 9/11 attacks and after every attack since.
We respectfully urge you to use your authority to expedite finalizing a rule that will eliminate these potentially catastrophic hazards wherever feasible.
To the Editor: Ezekiel J. Emanuel cites many adverse economic effects of American health care but exhibits a blind spot for a potentially catastrophic hazard of reform.
Oxygen toxicity is a catastrophic hazard in diving, because a seizure results in near certain death by drowning.
"The probable cause of this accident was Scaled Composites' failure to consider and protect against the possibility that a single human error could result in a catastrophic hazard" to the aircraft, the NTSB said.
Each patch has probability X of a catastrophic hazard at each time step that extirpates all its occupants.
In the step of hazard identification, the catastrophic functional hazards, derived from the functional hazard analysis (FHA) results for the airplane, are used as the top events to construct the fault trees.
Extreme floods are regarded as one of the most catastrophic natural hazards and can result in significant morphological changes induced by pronounced sediment erosion and deposition processes over the landscape.
