Sentence examples for historic tsunami from inspiring English sources

Historic tides represent the tide data from the time that a historic tsunami event occurred.

One of the most catalogued historic tsunami events to affect Sydney Harbour is the 9.5 MW Chilean tsunami of May 196015.

But given the enormousness of the catastrophe, which included the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan and a historic tsunami, the government has done all that it could, he said.

Several nuclear plants in Japan had inadequate protection — the average height of a historic tsunami exceeded the height of the sea wall, the plant itself and on-site emergency power generators.

Although a few studies have examined paleo-tsunami deposits along the Sanriku coast, additional studies of paleo-earthquakes and tsunamis are needed to improve our knowledge of the timing, recurrence interval, and size of historical and pre-historic tsunamis.

However much of the trip was spent on the Big Island of Hawai'i where we first explored Hilo and it's historic markers of tsunami from massive earthquakes in Alaska and Chile in the 1940s and 1960s.

Especially, a major splay fault, called 'megasplay' (Tobin and Kinoshita 2006), is considered as one of the primary coseismic faults that may have contributed to generating large historic earthquakes and tsunamis (Kikuchi et al. 2003; Baba et al. 2006; Tanioka and Satake 2001; Ichinose et al. 2003; Baba and Cummins 2005; Moore et al. 2007).

In the vicinity of Moroccan coasts, evidence of strong modern and pre-historic earthquakes and tsunamis has been found and studied in Spain, Portugal (e.g. Kortekaas and Dawson 2007; Rodríguez-Vidal et al. 2011; Costa et al. 2012; Cuven et al. 2013).

But he also said the combination of an enormous earthquake and immense tsunami was of historic proportions, and that the odds of it happening in the United States were small.

Tsunami modelling of potential and historic events in Australia's Sydney Harbour quantifies the potentially damaging impacts of an earthquake generated tsunami.

While Hillary Clinton cracked the glass ceiling last night as she accepted the historic presidential nomination from her party, the tsunami of balloons unleashed on stage at the Democratic convention also delighted.