Day 1,655: impending, materialise, epicentre, dire

The disasters proved less catastrophic than was feared. In the wake of the quake, officials warned of an impending tsunami with five-metre waves.

Yet the major tsunami did not materialise; the highest waves reached 1.2m in Wajima port, near the epicentre. Though dire, the death toll is far from the roughly 20,000 people killed in 2011.

A major earthquake in Japan highlights the country’s resilience

Artwork of the day 
The Impending Storm
Kent Monkman
Date: 2004
Style: Postcolonial art,Classical Realism
Genre: figurative,landscape

Word of the day 
impending: used to refer to an event, usually something unpleasant or unwanted, that is going to happen soon:
materialise: (of ideas and wishes) to become real or true:
epicentre: the point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake or atomic explosion
dire: very serious or extreme:

Quote of the day
“Nobody's death is impending."

..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”

― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian