Sentence examples for mammoth tsunami from inspiring English sources
A manager from the Tokyo Electric Power Company explained how the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been slammed by a mammoth tsunami and rocked by hydrogen explosions and had become highly radioactive.
TOKYO — The mammoth earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the death of tens of thousands and wiped out coastal cities in northeast Japan left the region to deal with 25 million tons of rubble, perhaps the country's biggest recycling challenge ever.
But for people -- who mark the calendar in days and months rather than eons -- a monumental catastrophe had begun, not only the largest earthquake in 40 years but also the displacement of billions of tons of water, unleashing a series of mammoth waves: a tsunami.
Lucy Walker's documentary "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" begins with indelible images of the mammoth March 11 wave, unfolding as a kind of slow-motion disaster that is almost more than the eye can take in.
"Bread Island Dwarf Mammoth.
