Sentence examples for giant tsunami from inspiring English sources

Is the United States vulnerable to a giant tsunami?

Catastrophic collapse during a future eruption threatens to devastate the Atlantic rim with giant tsunami.

Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat.

Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat.

Two years after a huge earthquake, giant tsunami and nuclear meltdown ravaged parts of Japan, life has only seemingly returned to normal.

But when a giant tsunami hit Japan's northeast on March 11, the breakwater largely crumpled under the first 30-foot-high wave, leaving Kamaishi defenseless.

Zircon is a durable mineral formed from the force of the giant tsunamis crashing ashore.

The impact appears to have sent giant tsunamis coursing around the world's oceans, scouring the early continents.

"Our point is that flank collapses can happen extremely fast and catastrophically, and therefore are capable of triggering giant tsunamis," said  Dr Ricardo Ramalho, from Columbia University in New York.

Yoshimura's book on historical tsunamis, originally published in 1970 and subsequently reissued as Sanriku kaigan ōtsunami ("The Sanriku Coast Giant Tsunamis"), was widely reread in 2011 after the events of March 11.

They were formed by volcanic activity before the impact and then scoured out of the rock by giant tsunamis, or tidal waves, caused by the impact; they were not created by the force of the tsunamis.