Sentence examples for high tsunami from inspiring English sources

A five-metre high tsunami washed them away as it inundated Muntei Baru Baru, his remote community on the south-west coast of the Mentawai Islands.

Unlike the accident in the Ukraine, events at Fukushima in March 2011 were not the result of ineptitude but rather a massive natural disaster in the form of a deadly 15-metre high tsunami.

An estimated 40 cubic miles (167 cubic metres) of rock fell into the ocean in one go, resulting in an 800ft (244m) high tsunami wave that engulfed an island more than 30 miles away (48km).

Subsequently, three ∼ 40 meter high tsunami waves overwhelmed the village of Tjelle and several other local communities.

This phenomenon created a secondary cycle, with positive polarity, that was responsible for the high tsunami amplitude recorded at tide gauge stations located north of Soma Coast (Miyagi Central, Sendai Offshore, Sendai Port, and Sendai New Port stations).

The high tsunami risk is also confirmed by O'Loughlin and Lander (2003) who compile 53 reliable tsunami occurrences in the Caribbean region within the last 500 years of written history.

On March 11 , 2011 a massive interplate earthquake (M 9.0), the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake (hereafter, the Tohoku-oki earthquake), occurred along the Japan Trench subduction zone (Fig. 1), producing strong ground shaking and high tsunamis that devastated the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan.

Data models, for example, told artists that their mile-high tsunami would take several minutes to roll over the Himalayas.

Soon after, a 45-foot-high tsunami wave inundated the plant and knocked out its backup diesel generators, leaving insufficient emergency power to keep cooling water flowing through the reactor cores.

Villagers had built a temporary encampment of salvage-wood huts in an open field at the edge of town, and with visitors in tow, they walked back among their old houses to show the marks of a knee-high tsunami caused by the second quake.

That recently examined recording is the latest evidence that an underwater landslide, not an earthquake, churned up the 30-foot-high tsunami that crashed onto coastal villages of Papua New Guinea on July 17 , 1998 killing more than 2,100 people.