Sentence examples for set off a tsunami from inspiring English sources

The massive landslide swept through the city and eventually reached the Ariake Sea, where it set off a tsunami.

Once inside, they learn via television that a Canary Island volcano set off a tsunami that has taken out the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States.

In other cases what seemed like an unremarkable bit of butterfly wing-flapping in the West set off a tsunami in distant lands.

His remarks and suspension have set off a tsunami of theological discourse in workplaces, university halls and cafes across Denmark, where religion seldom penetrates the collective consciousness.

In May 1960, a 9.5-magnitude earthquake in central Chile — the largest ever recorded — set off a tsunami that hit the Hawaiian islands about 15 hours later, causing $75 million in damage and killing 61 people.

At the Fukushima plant in Japan, an earthquake set off a tsunami that wiped out the diesel generators, and the quake itself shut off the grid and key electrical switches.

There has to be a finish so big it sets off a tsunami of second-guessing.

PAGE A16 Tsunami Strikes Indonesia A powerful undersea earthquake struck in the Indian Ocean off the southern coast of Java, Indonesia, setting off a tsunami that killed more than 150 people.

The soundless videos start about four hours after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's Pacific coast on the afternoon of March 11 , 2011 setting off a tsunami that overwhelmed the seaside plant.

I visited in early February of last year, about a month before the huge earthquake hit the eastern coast of the country, setting off a tsunami and the nuclear plant crisis at Fukushima.

Across the region hit by the disaster, people bowed their heads in silence at 2 46 pm, the moment a magnitude-9 earthquake – the biggest in Japan's recorded history – struck, setting off a tsunami that would leave about 20,000 people dead or missing, and trigger the world's worst nuclear accident for 25 years.