Engineers work to eliminate places where a single point of failure can cause large-scale damage, like the O-rings that led to the loss of the shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Disasters triggered by natural hazards such as floods, droughts or cyclones have the potential to cause large-scale damage on regional, national or even supranational scale.
The Tango earthquake occurred on March 7 , 1927 in the Tango district, located 90 km northwest of Kyoto City, causing large-scale damage (14,405 completely collapsed or burnt houses and 2,908 fatalities) in the surrounding region (e.g., Yamasaki and Tada, 1928).
For severe cases, plant diseases have caused large-scale damage to various crops, which resulted in a diminished output in whole regions; for instance, cocoa swollen shoot in Ghana [1, 2] and banana bunchy top in Australia [3 5].
Siegel's Ju 87s, with no air opposition, swooped onto their targets causing large-scale damage.
It is difficult to quantify for a number of reasons, primary among them the difficulty in measuring something that does not occur: the armed violence that never happens; the hurricane that passes without causing large-scale damage.
In a 210 MWe gas turbine, compressor blades in stage 3 failed and caused large scale collateral damage to the plant.
Glover said that in addition to Christie's work after Hurricane Sandy, which caused large scale power outages and wind damage in Scotch Plains, he supports Christie's views on local government reform, including a property tax cap and changes to public employee benefits.
Byndloss said this specific rule is what causes large scale segregation at Berkeley High.
In Pakistan summer monsoons cause large-scale floods fairly frequently.
Gateroads retained along gob side experience the strong mining disturbances from the current face and the next face, especially after the current face is mined out, the strong roof sag causes large-scale deformation and damage. .
