This is about 8 feet above sea level. In case of a tsunami, please evacuate to higher ground immediately.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

This is about 8 feet above sea level. In case of a tsunami, please evacuate to higher ground immediately.

The deepest part of the ocean around here exceeds 200 meters.

The device was sent down to the seabed at a depth of 7,703 meters off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture.

But the seabed is moving more than the land, and this could mean the seismic center might be under the sea rather than under the land.

Standing here, we can clearly see the gradual encroachments made by the sea upon the land.

It can produce highland conditions like those found as high as 3,500 meters above sea level.

an earthquake whose magnitude is more than 8

If the average temperature rises 1.4 to 5.8 degrees in the next 100 years, sea level will rise 10 to 90 centimeters, and seawater will flow over the seawalls in those areas.

Japan is surrounded by the sea, and may also be hit by large tsunamis.

The JCG studied the seabed at about 2,400 meters deep, 60 kilometers to the south of the city of Omaezaki.

Previously discovered deposits were located at depths of 30 meters or more beneath the seabed.

It must have drifted more than 6,500 kilometers across the sea.

The earthquake, however, causes a rise in sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and a typhoon develops.

In fact, the sea has already risen 10 centimeters since the beginning of this century.

Since it is surrounded by mountains here and the ocean is far away, there was no worries about tsunamis.

The earthquake originated at a point only about four kilometers beneath the ground.

Leave this building at once in case of an earthquake.

At low tide, the mountain is connected to the land, but once the tide comes in, the mountain is quickly surrounded by the sea and becomes an island.

The water was pulled up from half a klick down in the sea.

It has been reported that the center of the shock was the sea floor near Oshima Island.

The epicenter of the tremor has been traced to the sea bottom off Oshima Island.

an earthquake the focus of which is relatively close to the earth's surface, called shallow-focus earthquake

This is a layer of soil that is permanently frozen, and in some places it's many feet deep.

The ship is being given a safety check before it is taken ashore and investigated further by the Japan Coast Guard.

The Japan Coast Guard is planning to use such buoys in other fast tidal stream areas.

If Greenland's ice sheet were to melt completely, sea level all over the world would rise by 5 to 7 meters.

These buildings, when completed, will shut out our view of the sea.

the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

It will also be used in the research of the seabed near the sources of earthquakes.

the distance from the epicenter of an earthquake and the focus of an earthquake