Sentence examples for devastating tsunamis from inspiring English sources

Local leaders, meanwhile, are still debating the wisdom of rebuilding in areas that history shows are susceptible to devastating tsunamis.

Volcanoes can also produce devastating tsunamis, with the cataclysmic 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesia) churning up the sea sufficiently to produce lethal waves that killed 36,000 people.

A series of devastating tsunamis generated by the quake swamped coastal towns, particularly in Indonesia, and reached to the northern end of the Bay of Bengal and as far as the Indian Ocean's western shores.

A massive magnitude-9.0 temblor struck off the coast of Sendai on March 11 , 2011 itself producing some damage but also generating a series of devastating tsunamis along the coast of northeastern Japan.

However, numerical modeling of devastating tsunamis has revealed that an M8 class interplate earthquake occurred in 1771 in the southern Ryukyu Trench (Nakamura 2009).

While the latter caused devastating tsunamis that resulted in approximately 12,000 causalities in the Yaeyama Islands, the locations and focal mechanisms of these earthquakes continue to be debated.

Vocabulary: epidemic, worrisome, epicenter, surge, waterborne, fathom, livelihoods, debris, bobbing, receded, magnitude, tsunamis, devouring, ambassadors, condolences, onslaught, evacuated, devastating, tsunami, seismic, interface, tectonic, seismologists, collision, sporadically, atolls, marooned, catamarans, decrepit Extension Activities: 1. Make a model of the development of a tsunami.

For most investors the Japan story is the definition of ugly: a devastating tsunami followed by a nuclear reactor meltdown.

During the time period of such developments, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred and caused devastating tsunami damage in Japan and the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nucleaccident Staccidentcident.

The 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake (M w 9.0) was the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Japan and caused devastating tsunami damage including ~ 18,500 casualties.

A new study suggests that an earthquake below the lake could swamp the shores with a devastating tsunami up to 10 meters high, although it may not happen for centuries.