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It's nothing like a tsunami or a Katrina: too few crying children and smashed up houses.
So, you're on vacation at a nice beach, and word comes through that there's been a massive earthquake and that there is a tsunami advancing on the beach.
And I think, look at the tsunami, it's a classic example.
When the tsunami hit South Asia, the United States contributed 1.2 billion dollars.
I was afraid of a tsunami; what I didn't realize was there was a greater terror in Haiti, and that was building collapse.
At one point we have Hokkaido sinking into the sea and pyroclastic snow falling on the rest of Japan, while Osaka is buried under an immense tsunami.
Yet elsewhere in the country, people are still strolling around sightseeing and licking ice-cream when another tsunami rolls in... Kusanagi also manages to travel great distances without any hindrance, or even a crease in his cream shirt.
May be spoilers so do not read if you do not want to Just like watching the TV news , everything is already happened, a great tsunami looms over a city bay and CUT , no more to see, Tokay suffers a large earthquake , did anyone see more than the 5 seconds I saw?
And a killer tsunami about to strike!
And that's exactly how they should write; you want to thumble from one plot twist to the next, not get a tsunami of secrets spread all over you and then pick up a few to explain to the viewers.
The movie is fraught with puzzling, dark foreboding images of apocalyptic end world disasters and warns of a future island tsunami and doom.
China’s credit tsunami is financing investment in steel and property, sectors already burdened by massive excess capacity.
The eurozone technically emerged from recession, the unemployment rate in the United States was lower than in previous years, and Japan began to stir after a long slumber and the negative shock of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
This economic tsunami has come to us from the United States – there is nothing in it for Europe, but the right-wing forces in all our countries, which have coalesced into the majority that governs Europe, have rallied to its support.
Only Europe as a whole, focused politically on the idea of better regulation, is big enough to block the neo-liberal tsunami.
The accident at Fukushima resulted from an earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented severity.
But the plant was not designed to withstand the 14-meter-high tsunami waves that swept over its protective sea wall less than an hour later.
From Nuclear Safety to Nuclear SecurityWASHINGTON, DC/MOSCOW – Four years ago, a devastating tsunami crashed into the coast of Japan.
Myth 1: Outsourcing will be like a tsunami.
Parallel to this, the next tsunami is approaching, threatening to inundate the real economy.
Indeed, Kozul-Wright opposes any tightening at all: If the Fed “follows through on raising interest rates,” this could cause serious trouble for the global economy, and especially emerging markets, because of “the enormous tsunami of debt bearing down on households, businesses, banks, and governments.”
As a result, central banks failed to see the oncoming financial tsunami, and even after it arrived they continued to fight the last war against inflation.
Taking Safety LittorallyPASADENA – In 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal region.
But, in many areas, the Tohoku tsunami overflowed and even destroyed these protective structures – including the seawall at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Honshu.
And, as Japan’s recent experience demonstrated, protecting against the most powerful threats – such as the 9.0-magnitude Tohoku earthquake and the subsequent three-meter tsunami – would require massive, costly construction projects.
Without even the price of a stamp to deter the prolix, the unmanageable tsunami of e-mail threatens to drown the world in information, unless the servers, switches, and wires that sustain the system burn out first.
But the recent tsunami of Venezuelan refugees is causing massive problems for Colombia, beyond the direct costs of policing, ensuring urgent medical care, and providing other services.
From Fukushima to DisarmamentSYDNEY – Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the humanitarian tragedy and impedes recovery.
At Fukushima, a perfect storm – a massive earthquake and tsunami, multiple vulnerable coastal reactors with spent-fuel ponds in the same buildings, inadequate barriers, loss of power, and back-up generators situated too low – may have seemed a remote possibility.
The seawall at Fukushima was designed for a tsunami no higher than 5.7 meters.
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