Sentence examples for severe tsunami from inspiring English sources

This suggests that a peculiar source rupture process may be associated with the earthquake that generated the severe tsunami.

However, for the 1707 Hoei earthquake event (considered one of the larger historical Nankai Trough earthquake events) or the 1854 Ansei Nankai earthquake, documentation suggested that severe tsunami damage, from a maximum tsunami height of about 3 m, occurred in the Seto Inland Sea region, especially on the eastern side of the Seto Inland Sea.

Much of California is currently under a tsunami warning, the most severe tsunami advisory.

For the past 15 years Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata has studied natural disasters and catastrophes, including the severe tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.

Seismic waves set off by the earthquake produced severe tsunamis that caused widespread devastation to the island.

But research in recent years shows that the fault is extremely dangerous, capable of producing an earthquake as large as magnitude 8 as well as severe tsunamis that until now experts didn't believe were possible from a Southern California quake.

The southern coast is liable to severe damage by tsunamis, as was the case in the disaster of March 2011.

As Fukushima showed, there are also remaining risks from earthquakes, tsunamis, severe storms and even aircraft crashes — plus the dangers of fission associated with the storage of waste for over 10,000 years in geological repositories.

Along the way they created a 300-page back story that describes how humans ruined the planet and were eventually forced off by toxic air, severe unpredictable weather, tsunamis and earthquakes, complete with a political, spiritual and technological guide to life on the new planet Nova Prime.

The tests were highly controversial, with environmental groups fearing that the Cannikin explosion, in particular, would cause severe earthquakes and tsunamis.

On March 11 , 2011 the city and surrounding region were devastated by a severe earthquake and resulting tsunami.