The Whos may survive the predations of a larger, destructive universe; "Seussical," sadly, does not.
My concern is setting expectations that Sandy, that large, destructive hurricanes striking the United States, is the "new normal".
Review shows that large destructive fires are infrequent in India, most being low-intensity fires that burn only the ground vegetation in their respective ecosystems.
The last large destructive tidal wave, which killed more than 2,200 people along the northern coast of Papua New Guinea two years ago, was apparently the result of a large underwater landslide that was triggered by a moderate earthquake, scientists now say.
The Pacific margin of Central America is a subduction zone that regularly generates large destructive earthquakes and tsunamis part of the so-called "Ring of Fire" that rims the Pacific.
Perhaps even more astonishingly, Liu and his team proposed that storms might act as safety valves, repeatedly short-circuiting the buildup of dangerous levels of strain that otherwise could eventually instigate large, destructive earthquakes.
Statistical analysis shows, for example, that some seismic activity — a minor quake or a swarm of very small ones — increases the probability of a larger, destructive earthquake in the same area.
Citing a combination of dangerous storm surges and large, destructive waves, the National Hurricane Center warned of "a danger of life-threatening inundation" on Thursday and Friday along parts of Florida's east coast from North Palm Beach to Fernandina Beach.
The tsunami intensity scale proposed by Sieberg [2, 3] and modified by Ambraseys is a 6-point scale constructed in such a way that its divisions are not detailed enough and certainly do not incorporate the experience gained from the impact of large destructive tsunamis occurring in the last decades.
