Sentence examples for geological disaster from inspiring English sources

Karst is a potential geological disaster threatening urban construction.

"Due to the complexity and uncertainty of the problems, the pattern of geological disaster cannot be accurately predicted," he said.

Igan Sutawijaya, a volcano and geological disaster expert, said the early evidence suggested that an undersea event caused the tsunami.

China has a long history of large-scale deforestation that has contributed to serious consequences such as frequent geological disaster, flood and soil erosion.

Ms Dai says the water table is dropping by a metre a year, threatening "geological disaster".Beijing has been trying to reduce demand by increasing water tariffs, which are far too low to cover costs.

The high altitude and lack of oxygen made rescue work hard.A deputy minister of land and resources, Xu Deming, said preliminary investigations had shown that the landslide was caused by a "natural geological disaster".

One of their functions would be to look out for potential "geological disasters".

Another official said frequent geological disasters were putting lives at risk.

Geological disasters might influence climate, for instance when volcanic debris blots out the sun.

Therefore, failure analysis of buried steel pipe under the action of geological disasters is very important.

However, with increasing mining depth, engineering geological disasters in the underground caverns have been frequently encountered.