Sentence examples for extensive inundation from inspiring English sources

Identification of old tsunami deposits has shown extensive inundation in areas around the Sendai plain from the Jogan earthquake (e.g., Sawai et al., 2008).

The Dutch considered the Bath and Zanddijk Positions to be very defensible because of the open polder landscape and extensive inundations.

The subsequent inundation causes extensive die-off of trees in the flood zone.

Consequent surface inundations caused extensive damage to several roads.

Although MCS is easy to use, it is restricted by extensive computational needs, particularly for large-scale flood inundation modelling problems.

This paper explores the hydrology of the extensive floodplains of Poyang Lake Chinaa) to highlight complex, hysteretic relationships in the inundation dynamics, which are controlled by the heterogeneity of the land surface and time-varying exchanges between the Lake, its catchment and the Yangtze River.

In both events, intense rainfall triggered violent inundations along the Soana stream and its lateral creeks, producing extensive damage to several small urban areas along the riverbeds.

In 2013 for example, Moyne shire released an extensive coastal hazard assessment report for popular holiday town Port Fairy, finding that several hundred buildings would be at risk of inundation by seawater as ocean levels rise.

And the inundation this year is much heavier.

They hint at a slow, gloomy inundation.

The extensive lowland areas bordering the main river and its tributaries, called várzeas ("floodplains"), are subject to annual flooding, with consequent soil enrichment; however, most of the vast basin consists of upland, well above the inundations and known as terra firme.