Japanese meteorological authorities said a small tsunami wave of two feet could result from the earthquake.
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Conversely, a tsunami wave rolling up the channel would grow in height as it became increasingly constricted.
That quake generated a 33-foot (10-meter) tsunami wave, and some scientists believe the quake may have triggered the eruption of Mount Fuji 49 days later, Morris said.
The sea level monitoring network comprising deep sea tsunami monitoring buoys and coastal sea level gauges operated well and were crucial in confirming that a large tsunami wave had not been generated.
Telling Scotland's History features the Storegga Tsunami, a giant wave that hit 8, 000 years ago, and South Uist's Frankenstein's Mummies.
Three hours later the tsunami hit Male with a wave about 3ft high.
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It begins with a magnificent re-creation of the 2004 tsunami a mighty wave that entirely overwhelms the rather pallid movie that follows.
In April 2007, we issued a report headlined The Second Wave of the Housing Tsunami: 2007-2011 in which we suggested commercial real estate was likely to be the second shoe to drop in what was already an unnerving collapse in the residential housing market.
Granted, there was little the NWS could have done to prevent the loss of life caused by that wave, but had a similar tsunami erupted farther west, we would not have been fully prepared either.
Baptised Caribe Wave 2011, the exercise tested the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (Caribe EWS).
The Pacific's tsunami warning system began to be set up after a giant wave struck Hawaii in 1946, killing more than 150 people.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited at the end of the year and signaled a likely end to U.S. sanctions, bringing a wave of executives to the country like a commercial tsunami.
Loti Yates, director of the national disaster management office in the Solomon capital Honiara, that the airport in Lata had been damaged by the tsunami and that logs and debris which had washed into the area by the wave were blocking the runway.
Without that wave of new apps, healthcare providers will be doomed to address the tsunami of new requirements facing them and risk missing the opportunities those present.
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When the tsunami hit, he was near the swimming pool when he saw a 40-foot wave coming towards him.
The third wave of ObamaCare taxes began on January 1, the latest blitz before the tsunami of changes from the health overhaul law hit in 2014.
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The catastrophic earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan has produced a ripple effect on global business that reaches far beyond any seismic wave.
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' And then a message crawled across the bottom of the screen with times the tsunami might hit--9:15, 9:30, 10:00--as the wave could roll north or south toward LA. It was already 8:30 and this didn't seem like much of a head start.
In McKinleyville, California, a wave swept three men into the Pacific Ocean as they were reportedly trying to take photos of the incoming tsunami waves, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
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