Earthquake in a sentence as a noun

We need low cost structures which can shield people from high winds, floods and earthquakes.

Or, with one strong earthquake 2,000 years from now, it could crush the drums you've buried deep in the desert.

"A major earthquake in the area is unlikely but cannot be ruled out," Boschi said.

Certain types of subduction zones are more prone to having large earthquakes that rupture all the way up to the seafloor.

The recent Tonankai earthquake in northern Japan turned a lot of what we thought we knew about this on its head, though.

I value not fundamentally worrying if there were to be an earthquake and this place would be destroyed.

It's also why 2 people dying in a stream in your neighborhood seems so much more relevant than 100,000 people dying in an earthquake halfway around the world.

Eva added that "because L'Aquila is in a high-risk zone it is impossible to say with certainty that there will be no large earthquake".

A deep earthquake is unlikely to cause much deformation at the seafloor, and therefore doesn't generate as large of a tsunami.

We had a recent employee leave Japan immediately after the earthquakeI guess the employee was looking for the same thing.

I recall many many people on this site asserting with absolute certainty that nothing bad could happen at Fukushima immediately after the earthquake.

Did the vibrations cause HDDs to temporarily suspend?This could have some interesting data behind it, but as it is the article doesn't even have conclusive proof that the earthquake did cause this outage.

Selvaggi is quoted as saying that "in recent times some recent earthquakes have been preceded by minor shocks days or weeks beforehand, but on the other hand many seismic swarms did not result in a major event".

They will argue wildlife endangerment, habitat destruction, cancer risk, ******* risk, traffic risk, earthquake/disaster risk, global epidemic risk, job preservation/creation/destruction risk, you name it.

A few seconds warning seems like it might be kind of useless for humans, especially at 3am, but it would be cool to have this feed into automatic systems to automatically put them in a "safer" state before an earthquake hits.

" This kind of **** makes me more convinced than ever that humanity won't end with a meteor strike or a giant earthquake, but a mob of assholes with superman complexes and pitchforks going around making sure that people understand their vision of justice.

Much in the same way, when you've crammed the ifs and elses, the fors and whiles, the variables and constants, the pointers and pointers to pointers, and pointers to functions, and pointers to pointers to pointers to functions, and then you go on to build that thingamabob or model that gene sequence or understand that earthquake, then you realize the true power of what you've been working with.

Earthquake definitions

noun

shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

See also: quake temblor seism

noun

a disturbance that is extremely disruptive; "selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees"