Some experimental and numerical studies have been done to understand the tsunami-induced scours around coastal structures (Kato et al., 2001; Tonkin et al., 2003 Nakamura et al., 2008), and it is revealed that most rapid scour on sand substrate occurred at the tsunami down-rush stage.
The slow-motion tsunami bearing down on Queen's Park since March has finally battered down the doors and blown out all the windows.
Stuck in traffic as the tsunami barreled down on 3/11, Sakai remembers that he saw a narrow side street and hit the gas as a wall of black closed in.
In case of earthquake or tsunami shut down hotel operation.
In the days immediately after the wave, the Thai papers had reported that there was a secret Moken legend about tsunamis, passed down from generation to generation: when the ocean recedes and the fish flop around, you know a huge wave is coming.
Some have already burst their banks sending the equivalent of vertical tsunamis down valleys washing away power lines, homes and lives.
Economists said growth was likely to slow as tsunami reconstruction wound down.
"This impressive audience looks like the wave of a tsunami," she beckoned down to her seat in front of the screen.
Jan Egeland, the United Nations' high-profile under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, who called international attention to the violence against villagers in Darfur and led the international aid effort after the Indian Ocean tsunami, is stepping down in December, according to Brian Grogan, his special assistant.
Red and blue areas indicate up and down tsunami phases, respectively.
At this awful, pinched moment of history we look into the future and see a tsunami of want bearing down on us, darkening the sky.
