Huge blocks of ice calved off and collapsed into tidal waves of icy slush.
The two-day eruption and associated tidal waves killed some 36, 000 people and destroyed two-thirds of the island.
So what can you do to buck the trend, to soar above the tidal waves of the mediocre?
Any future design would also be built to withstand damage caused by disasters such as tidal waves and earthquakes.
Considering Japan's travails of the past year a magnitude 9 earthquake, tidal waves and nuclear meltdowns its national economy is doing relatively well.
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Of course, the currency collapse that triggered the slump was itself ample proof of how helpless nations are before the tidal waves of global capital.
' Watching all those cars headed so purposely in one direction that was straight out of one of those thrillers about earthquakes or tidal waves or killer hurricanes.
Star spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, meanwhile, came within minutes of being caught up in the huge tidal waves which swept across the Sri Lankan coastline at Galle.
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According to which you believe, great earthquakes will cause California to fall into the Pacific, tidal waves will devastate coastal cities, or the earth's crust will shift.
The next morning, some 36, 000 villagers were swept into oblivion by tidal waves more than 100 feet high, set in motion when the volcanic island of Krakatoa blew itself to bits.
For the foreseeable future, there will be plenty of periods in which diversification will seem to fail as tidal waves of money crash in and out of all assets at once.
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Ocean hits are worse than land hits, not just because of immense tidal waves, but because of the vast quantities of super-heated water vapor and dust that spread from the impact to shroud the entire Earth.
One of the reasons why it's taken archaeologists so long to pinpoint its whereabouts may be the fact that it lies 60 miles inland, where you wouldn't really expect it to be susceptible to the effects of tidal waves (which is what Plato's account of the ancient city identified as its demise).
LeBron has made waves his entire career, and his move from Cleveland to Miami made those waves tidal in stature.
By shifting production and jobs overseas, outsourcing has a devastated impact on both levels that often unleash tidal ideological and political waves that may reverse all the gains from outsourcing, and then some.
He can see ripples there, like very small waves: a tidal river.
He began to learn all this as a baby, when his grandfather, himself a master navigator, held his tiny body in tidal pools to teach him how waves and wind blew differently from place to place.
Or will all four waves converge like a tidal bore of data, empowering CMOs with a more complete picture of the path to purchase from intent to transaction, and from the top of funnel to the bottom?
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Because the area around the St Davids peninsula is fully exposed to the storm waves of the Atlantic and has major tidal streams it has been identified by the assembly government as a potential site for tidal energy.
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