Sentence examples for cause tsunamis from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

In 1964, the Good Friday Earthquake left 139 people death, caused tsunamis and levelled entire neighbourhoods.

PDCs, followed by indirect causes, tsunamis, and primary lahars, have caused most fatalities, though tephra and gas are the most common causes in low-fatality (ten or below) incidents.

Underwater landslides in Alaska's fjords caused tsunamis within minutes of the shaking.