Sentence examples for destructive hazards from inspiring English sources

Lava flows form slow-moving but destructive hazards at volcanoes around the world.

In general, more severe impacts are close to the vent, although in some cases destructive hazards can travel 10s of km from the vent (e.g., Dufek et al., 2015; Vallance and Iverson, 2015).

Our data show that the number of fatalities is related to hazard extent (Figures 16a and b), and highly destructive hazards with typically large hazard footprints, such as PDCs, lahars, and tsunamis, have caused the greatest numbers of fatalities.

Many of the destructive hazards are natural in origin and include earthquakes and extreme weather events resulting in floods and droughts, which has resulted in disaster risk management policy being largely event driven.

However, closer examination of the fatalities record shows that there are some high VEI eruptions producing very destructive hazards that have caused very small numbers of fatalities, and vice versa; for these incidents, eruption magnitude (VEI) is not the dominant control on fatality counts, as previously noted by Blong (1988).

Drought is the most widespread and destructive hazard in arid and semiarid regions, with behaviors that become more complicated under climate change.

PDC is a highly destructive hazard that fortunately may only occur distant from the city, so there is virtually no chance that Manizales will be affected by this hazard (Bernal 2014c, see Fig. 3).

Supertankers are capable of carrying larger loads, but they also involve an increased risk of severe economic loss in case of accidents or, in transporting petroleum, of potentially destructive environmental hazards.

Flash floods represent one of the most destructive natural hazards in the Mediterranean region.

Liquefaction is one of the most destructive natural hazards that causes damage to engineering structures during an earthquake.

Flooding is one of the most frequent and destructive environmental hazards that occur annually worldwide (United Nations International strategy for Disaster Reduction [UNISDR] (2015).