Earthquake

//ˈɜːθkweɪk//

"Earthquake" in a Sentence (17 examples)

In the near future, we may have a big earthquake in Japan.

Will there be an earthquake in the near future?

They say we'll have an earthquake one of these days.

It is said that there will be a big earthquake in the near future.

The rescue workers are going to hand out supplies to the victims of the earthquake.

According to some scholars, a major earthquake could occur at any moment now.

The church we went past crumbled five minutes later due to a huge earthquake, and more than a hundred churchgoers were buried alive.

The house collapsed in an earthquake.

Let us students contribute to the welfare of the victims of the earthquake; even loose change will go a long way.

The radio warned us of the coming earthquake and we started gathering our things.

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Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.

Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.

Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.

The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes.

As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Leo Varadkar has announced he is standing down as Ireland’s prime minister and also giving up his role as leader of the Fine Gael party in the ruling coalition, in a surprise move described by pundits as a “political earthquake” for the country.

Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.

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