Sentence examples for flows destroyed from inspiring English sources

On the 25th June 1997, a series of pyroclastic flows destroyed settlements and infrastructure (including the airport in the East) from Trants to Dyers and killed 19 people (Loughlin et al. 2002).

The largest lava flow impact of recent times took place during the 2002 eruption of Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, in which lava flows destroyed approximately 15% of the city of Goma and the homes of more than 120,000 people (Baxter et al. 2002).

A total of 57 people are known to have died, and more were left homeless when the ash falls and pyroclastic flows destroyed or buried 200 houses.

The lava flow destroyed a dozen villages on the lower slope and submerged the western part of the town of Catania.

Channelization and groynes or wing dykes have caused the narrowing of rivers and altered flow, destroying crucial spawning and nursery habitat.

Actress Enid Markey was "badly injured" during the production; during her scene in which the lava flow destroys the village she was surrounded by smoke and fumes and nearly asphyxiated, but had recovered by May 1914.

Others, he said, suffered from reduced power flows that destroyed computers and air-conditioners, forcing them to shut for far longer.

Many sabo dams (i.e. check dams) in the path of the debris flows were destroyed.

This settlement in southern Tajikistan was recently built to house families displaced by two major mud flows that destroyed four villages in the spring of 2009.

The eruption of 1971 threatened several villages with its lava flow and destroyed some orchards and vineyards.

These breakouts produced a west-directed flow that destroyed many agricultural fields.