Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity.
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Examples for "earthquake "
Examples for "earthquake "
1 Within days of the earthquake , the effects for the business were clear.
2 The victims of the earthquake still desperately needed assistance, Mr Hallak said.
3 For every number higher, the earthquake is 30 times stronger, he said.
4 Safety warnings about its buildings, including earthquake - prone ones, extend back 18 years.
5 CHINA:WE WERE at home in Beichuan when the earthquake shook the house.
1 The government appeals to private companies to deliver supplies to quake victims.
2 North Korea's official news agency carried no immediate reports on the quake .
3 No fatalities or serious injuries were reported from either quake , police said.
4 It was not immediately clear whether the quake caused injuries or damage.
5 The quake lasted several minutes, and was widely felt throughout New Zealand.
1 The temblor could not be felt in San Francisco, a witness said.
2 But none has had a quake triggered by a distant temblor .
3 The temblor tore a large gash in one of the streets.
4 Worse, huge waves beat the northern shores after the first temblor .
5 The epicenter of the temblor was 55 miles north-northwest of Lae, the agency said.
6 The U.S. Geological survey recorded the temblor at a depth of seven miles deep.
7 It was still brick-oven hot days after the temblor .
8 The temblor had passed instantly and without harm.
9 Georgina Mendez de Schaafsma was returning from taking children to school when the 1985 temblor struck Tlatelolco.
10 The temblor did not shake La Paz nor Peru's capital of Lima, people in those cities said.
11 Sierra, saw-toothed; an earthquake is a temblor .
12 The ground rolled beneath Iome's feet, and stones rained down from the roof as another temblor struck.
13 A massive temblor in 2008 in Sichuan province killed around 80,000 people.
14 Government officials said this week that parts of Christchurch would have to be abandoned after the latest temblor .
15 Mexico's national seismological service originally registered the temblor at 5.7 magnitude.
16 Another 8.1 temblor hit the same region in 1933, killing 3,064.
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