Sentence examples for cause tsunami from inspiring English sources

As possibly the world's first "ecology" columnist, he was licensed to be both political and controversial, and in 1971 he warned readers that an imminent American nuclear test in the faraway Aleutian Islands off Alaska would cause tsunami and earthquakes and probably devastate the Pacific west coast.

The forth cause, tsunami size, relates to the transportation and preservation of tsunami deposits.

The "butterfly effect" indicates that a seemingly insignificant small event in one part of the world may cause tsunami effects in other remote areas of the globe.

Precipitation from cyclones was often, though not exclusively, the cause Tsunami In 1978 a large tsunami impacted the northeastern villages and destroyed the then coastally situated village of Makatea There were an awareness of the risk and many extant stories of the 1978 tsunami.

Small landslides -- or ones that slip slowly -- do not cause tsunamis.

Seismometers measure earthquakes that might cause tsunamis, but they cannot detect the waves themselves.

Earthquakes and landslides along the Puerto Rico Trench, an undersea fault zone, have the potential to cause tsunamis.

But it seems not to have been designed to cope with an earthquake combined with a tsunami, even though earthquakes are generally what cause tsunamis.

Riverfront landslides often occupy rivers and cause tsunamis as they move into the water body in a direction perpendicular to the channel axis.

He said the Indian authorities had learned of the earthquake near Sumatra at 6 29 a.m., but had no way of knowing that it would cause tsunamis that would hit the Indian coast some two and a half hours later.

Just as volcanic eruptions cause tsunamis many hours after the event, it was easy to imagine the gale-force storm which ripped across the Oval outfield originating from within the pavilion two hours previous.