Sentence examples for direct hazard from inspiring English sources

Although slow earthquakes do not pose a direct hazard to society, they do significantly affect the amount of strain at convergent plate boundaries and therefore influence when and where large damaging "normal" earthquakes occur.

Furthermore, the estimated dose for alpha BHC, beta BHC, Endosulfan Aldehyde, DDT, Endosulfan I, Endosulfan II, gamma BHC, Heptachlor, Endosulfan sulfate, Atrazine, Phosphomethylglycine and Carbofuran, do not pose direct hazard to human health since values were lower than the reference dose and Hazard quotient (HQ) were lower than toxic threshold of 1.

"Marijuana plants use six to eight gallons of water per plant, per day, and are a direct hazard to wildlife that eats the plants," said California Department of Fish and Wildlife's assistant chief Brian Naslund in a press release last year.

Direct hazard assessments and current methodology for studying nanomaterials help to reveal gaps in the knowledge and deficiency of current assessments.

This finding highlights the potential for unintended consequences after any alteration to eyewear in older people either through a direct hazard or altered risk behaviour.

While there is little direct hazard posed by volcanic lightning, the perceived hazard to local populations is significant and may alter the behaviour of communities during an eruption (Bird et al. 2011).

Last year biologists began to raise questions on possible direct hazards to life from 2, 4, 5-T.

Due to their comparatively small impact radius, direct hazards from phreatic explosions are concentrated close to the crater.

For example, the 1815 VEI 7 eruption of Tambora, Indonesia, resulted in about 12,000 deaths through direct hazards including PDCs, tephra fall and tsunamis during the short-lived cataclysmic stage of the eruption (Oppenheimer, 2003, and references therein).

Heart attack, often related to obesity and its metabolic complications, kills nearly twice as many fire fighters as trauma and all the direct hazards of fire exposure combined.

"I think this study reflects the general agreement that the San Jacinto plays an almost-equal role to the San Andreas in terms of direct hazards to Southern California," Scharer said.