Sentence examples for tsunami off from inspiring English sources

(Mr. Zimet even tosses in a tsunami off Coney Island, but thankfully leaves it entirely to viewer imagination).

While bracing for Mount Merapi to explode, officials were also trying to cope with damage from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake late Monday that caused a tsunami off western Indonesia, leaving scores of villagers dead or missing.

"If you have a tsunami off the South Pacific that's going to happen every time there's a shift in the fault line, you're not going to put an oil rig there," Dr. MacLean said.

Synolakis collaborated with Tappin and Grilli on previous investigations establishing that a similar slump caused the deadly 1998 tsunami off Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia, 2004: Devastating 9.1 earthquake and ensuing tsunami off the Sumatran province of Aceh kills more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

The effects of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan on marine ecosystems are severe and harder to discern.

Despite the RBA dropping interest rates (citing low inflation in the real economy), the banking system is seemingly struggling to figure out how they will be able to comfortably finance the new army of investors and owner occupiers when the tsunami of off-the-plan apartments due for completion later this year need to be paid for with minimal collateral and maximum debt from the buyer.

Meanwhile, the tsunami of knock-offs began to build: Lethal Weapon, Stakeout, Bad Boys, the later Die Hards, Tango And Cash, Blue Streak, Chill Factor, Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, Money Train… There were some keepers like Midnight Run, The Last Boy Scout and, recently, The Heat, all of them blessed with adroitly paired performers.

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.

"Some students, you look into their backpack, and it looks like a tsunami went off in there," he said.

Less than two weeks later, the earthquake and tsunami set off the crisis at the power station.