Sentence examples for devastating waves from inspiring English sources

The aftershocks on Thursday sent coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, concerned that the tremors would again create devastating waves.

Smaller, but still devastating, waves would wash up along South America, Australia and islands in the Pacific.

An earthquake along a newly discovered fault off the southeastern coast of Japan could generate devastating waves, scientists report in the journal Science.

Even though civilians are rarely subjected to anything close to the devastating waves that burst from battle explosions, the characteristics of blast injuries could lend insight into brain damage caused by single impacts in automobile accidents, for example.

Hurricane Michael was packing winds of up to 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour), hours before it was set to make landfall on Florida's Panhandle or Florida's Big Bend where it potentially could unleash devastating waves as high as 13 feet (4 meters), the National Hurricane Center NHCC) warned.

A twin-wing tsunami barrier capable of effectively disrupting, breaking down, neutralizing and actually exploiting the impact of tsunami devastating waves once reaching urban, residential and strategic economic coastal areas.

The bomb, the largest conventional explosive in the American arsenal, is designed to explode three feet above the ground, sending a devastating wave of fire and blast several hundred yards to kill troops, flatten trees, knock over structures and demoralize those beyond the immediate impact zone.

The bomb, officially known as the BLU-82, is designed to explode three feet above the ground, sending a devastating wave of fire and blast several hundred yards to kill troops, flatten trees, knock over structures, collapse cave entrances and, in general, demoralize those beyond the immediate impact zone.

The bomb, the largest conventional munition built by the U.S. military, detonated as intended -- exploding just above the ground and sending a devastating wave of fire hundreds of yards across a test range, Air Force officials said.

Pressure waves, or P-waves, are the fastest; shear waves, or S-waves, are slower but cause more ground-shaking; and last are the leisurely but devastating Rayleigh waves, which cause the ground to roll like swells on the sea.

On March 11 , 2011 a massive undersea earthquake off Japan's coast triggered devastating tsunami waves that in turn caused meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.