Sentence examples for directed blast from inspiring English sources

A directed blast in which one side of a volcanic cone fails, as happened at Mount St. Helens in the United States in 1980, can cause destruction over several hundred square kilometres on the failed flank of the volcano.

This northward directed blast produced a ballistic apron on the northern lake shore up to a distance of 2 km, with an almost homogeneous impact density of 0.014 clasts/m2.

The high explosive directed blast fragmentation warhead is capable of destroying a target within a 40-50 m radius.

It produced the only unequivocal laterally directed blast known from Mount St. Helens before the 1980 eruptions.

The proximal enrichments in soluble S and Cl were previously noted by Stoiber et al. (1981) who suggested that this was indicative of interactions with a 'large magmatic gas component in the directed blast and early in the eruption which decreased with time'.

The variation with ejection direction is due to the varying topography of the summit and the influence of the northern vent that produces directed blasts.

Some ash travelled north from Te Maari, but it was clear (Lube et al., 2014; Pardo et al., 2014; Turner et al., 2014) that these ash deposits were produced by low-angle directed blasts.

Table 1 List of fatality causes used in analyses Cause Definition Abbreviation Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) Pyroclastic flows, surges, and directed blasts P Tephra Tephra (ash, bombs, lapilli), resultant from both magmatic and phreatic eruptions.

A Texas spinner is a Gamma Jet, directing blasts of water at a hundred pounds of pressure per square inch.

American officials have said it was a highly sophisticated "shaped charge," housed in a heavy steel that directed the blast with sufficient power to penetrate the Cole's half-inch reinforced steel hull, designed to withstand a force of 50,000 pounds a square inch, according to the Navy.

As devotional author Robert Law wrote a century ago, anger "is merely a force, a gunpowder of the soul which, according as it is directed, may blast away the obstructions of evil, or defend us from temptation as with a wall of fire, or which again may work devastating injury in our own and in other lives".