Sentence examples for destructive tsunami from inspiring English sources

A similar but shorter-lived occurrence in 1975 was followed by a destructive tsunami.

The most destructive tsunami ever recorded occurred on December 26 , 2004 after an earthquake displaced the seabed off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

The odds are remote that this country will confront a similarly powerful earthquake followed by an even more destructive tsunami — the twin blows that disabled Fukushima.

Two days later, an even stronger quake struck off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, causing panic and blackouts but, despite initial fears, no destructive tsunami.

"Since the motion is horizontal, it is not moving the water column, it is less likely to produce a destructive tsunami," Mr. Pressgrave said.

"Just look at how oil palm, which is highly productive and profitable, is spreading across the tropics like a destructive tsunami".

Yet landslides are often the cause of the most destructive tsunamis.

Scientists believe that kinetic energy interception is adequate for the majority of objects, including those of intermediate size and most likely to cause destructive tsunamis.

The highly indented coast of the Kitakami Range is subject to destructive tsunamis (ocean waves caused by earthquakes), including the devastating series of earthquake-generated tsunamis in March 2011 that laid waste to much of the region's eastern coastline.

This earthquake triggered huge destructive tsunamis that hit the Pacific coast of Northeast Japan, thus causing extensive damage.

Therefore, interplate coupling occurring offshore cannot be detected accurately, even though such motion can generate strong and destructive tsunamis.