Sentence examples for strong tsunami from inspiring English sources

Although somewhat smaller, last night's magnitude 8.6 quake could have set off a similarly strong tsunami.

This is possibly the reason for strong tsunami amplitude attenuation in Syros at the distance of 230 km from the source.

On March 11 , 2011 Japan's Pacific coast of Tohoku (northeast Honshu) was hit by a strong tsunami set off by a large off-shore magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

Regions near trenches such as region S, are known as strong tsunami generation areas, and background seismicity is relatively low, although the aftershocks were located in them and the notion of up-dip limit should be reconsidered.

The 2011 triple catastrophe – when the strongest earthquake ever shook Japan, followed by a strong tsunami, and the shameful handling of the Fukushima nuclear accident following the earthquake and the tsunami – led to the end of DPJ government.

The cement road near the shoreline is assumed non-erodible and the area between shoreline and the cement road is assumed erodible: the influences of the wooden houses on the sediment transport are ignored as these wooden houses can be easily smashed and swept by the strong tsunami waves (see Fig. 6 for the typical appearance of these wooden houses and the road).

Strong tsunamis are another factor influencing coastal evolution.

Three strong tsunami-generative earthquakes occurred in the span of time individuated by the 14C age determinations: on March 8, 1832 in the Crotone area (Central Calabria), on April 24 , 1836along the coast of Rossano Calabro (northern Calabria) and on October 23, 1907 in southern Calabria (Table 3) (Fig. 13).

Historical earthquakes in the area include the 1627 Gargano peninsula and the 1667 Dubrovnik earthquakes, both followed by strong tsunamis.

Overall, Japan's exports fell 2.7 percent for the year to 65.5 trillion yen $842 billionn) after the strong post-tsunami rebound among its exporters, who raced to fix ravaged factories and severed supply chains — while its imports rose 12 percent to 68 trillion yen $874 billionn).

But 2011 also started strong — until the tsunami in Japan and the uprisings throughout the Arab world touched off a downward spiral.