Sentence examples for major tsunami from inspiring English sources

A major tsunami has hit the Sanriku Coast every few decades over the last century and a half.

A tsunami advisory for Hawaii said a "major tsunami" was not expected but it warned of sea-level changes and strong currents.

A tsunami zone cuts through the low areas of Manzanita, Mr. Taylor said, though the last major tsunami hit the region some 300 years ago.

And yet the disaster of five years ago — a magnitude-9.0 megathrust earthquake off Tohoku, followed by a major tsunami and nuclear accident — came as a surprise.

Some of the most thorough preparations over the weekend were taken by Japan, where meteorological agency officials issued the nation's first major tsunami warning in 17 years.

In addition, the slip along the fault appears to have occurred at the relatively shallow depth of about six miles, resulting in a major tsunami.

The lists, said Lt. Col. Greg Conti, a professor of computer science at West Point, "are just major tsunami-type activities, big waves in the online searches".

In a landscape where earthquakes are a regular occurrence but major tsunamis happen irregularly, people naturally forget.

The frequency of strong hurricanes is considered as periodic (in the order of 10 500 years), the one of major tsunamis as episodic (in the order of 500 5000 years).

Modern subaerial sand beds deposited by major tsunamis and hurricanes were compared at trench, transect, and sub-regional spatial scales to evaluate which attributes are most useful for distinguishing the two types of deposits.

The 1703 and 1923 great Kanto earthquakes (M8-class) have been considered typical examples of interplate earthquakes on the upper surface of the PHS slab and caused severe damage as a result of their strong shaking and major tsunamis.