large-magnitude

Cooling events since then had firm causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La Ninas.

Global warming on hold.... GayandRight 2009

They suffered loss of diversity as a result of extinctions during the rapid, large-magnitude global warming at the end of the last glacial stage.

Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009

Examples of large-magnitude nonlinear changes include:

Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Summary for Decision-makers 2008

It might help to identify “hotspots” likely to exhibit large-magnitude UHI changes.

Hansen and the Great White North « Climate Audit 2007

More recently, a cooperative Federal, State, local, and private-sector effort was initiated to prepare for responding to a credible large-magnitude earthquake, or its prediction, in Southern California.

An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency Various

The conclusion reached thus far is that large-magnitude earthquakes pose no significant or unanticipated problems of solvency and liquidity for such institutions.

An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency Various

According to the researchers, the main focus of the grant is to determine the social nature of disaster response, or in other words, how social networks shape and influence emotional and behavioral responses to large-magnitude disasters.

THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

Two "Big Shaker" earthquake simulator trailers allowed people to experience the jerky chaos of a large-magnitude tremor.

NYT > Home Page By MALIA WOLLAN 2010

Two "Big Shaker" simulator trailers let people experience the jerky chaos of a large-magnitude tremor.

NYT > Home Page By MALIA WOLLAN 2010

Essentially, [in a] large-magnitude earthquake, which would come from a very deep source, the shaking it would generate at the surface will be much less because [of] the thick pile of rock that the energy will encounter as it moves into the surface.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010