Wondering how to use Earthquake in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as disruption.
Earthquake in a sentence
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Earthquake meaning
- A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
- Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
- A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
Synonyms of Earthquake
Using Earthquake
- The main meaning on this page is: A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. | Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. | A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
- Useful related words include: quake, hoo-hah, hoo-ha, to-do.
- In the example corpus, earthquake often appears in combinations such as: the earthquake, an earthquake, earthquake in.
Example sentences (20)
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and the 1985 Algarrobo earthquake both caused damage in Santiago, and led to the development of strict building codes with a view to minimising future earthquake damage.
Asked what could happen if a large-scale earthquake event, like the one in Turkey, strikes the Himalayas, he said the destructive potential of an earthquake depends on several factors, including depth and proximity to populated areas.
Even before the earthquake, these neighbourhoods had all but exhausted their medical supplies, rendering them ill-equipped to deal with the casualties resulting from the earthquake.
Infrasound sensors can register the full range of an earthquake’s ground motion by detecting air pressure changes caused by the ground’s up and down movement during an earthquake.
In this case, the Turkey Earthquake caused serious damage at 7.8 and is classified as a major earthquake.
The public view of earthquake prediction typically concerns a deterministic (yes/no) assessment of whether or not an earthquake will happen on the intermediate timescale (hours to days).
The uniqueness of the “earthquake” in the times of Moshe that absorbed Korach was not much of an earthquake.
China’s Earthquake Administration said it immediately activated emergency response services in conjunction with the Office of the Earthquake Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management, dispatching a group to guide local rescue efforts.
During the night of Friday, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake caused Saturday’s earthquake.
Following the earthquake, Morocco’s government promised monthly stipends for residents of the homes destroyed, as well as additional funds for earthquake-resistant reconstruction.
If you've been practicing your earthquake preparedness plan, you should have designated places to go if an earthquake occurs.
South China Morning Post, this most devastating earthquake in Chinese history was also known as the Jiajing earthquake, which occurred during the reign of the Ming dynasty's Jiajing Emperor.
The "Hebgen Lake Earthquake" earthquake happened on August 17, 1959.
Toyama Prefecture, located south of the earthquake's epicenter, has reported 37 injuries and 48 instances of earthquake-related building damage.
Strong 6.9 earthquake hits near Papua New Guinea, tsunami alert liftedAssessment teams have been deployed in Papua New Guinea after a magnitude 6-point-9 magnitude earthquake this afternoon.
The reports prepared by the İzmir’s Bayraklı Municipality Earthquake Research Center on the request of the residents have revealed that the buildings were not earthquake resistant, according to daily Hürriyet.
After the earthquake struck in the early hours of Friday morning, authorities in neighbouring Chile, where the earthquake was also felt, initially put people on standby to evacuate, but later rescinded the order.
However, most of the enormous region from the Rockies to the Atlantic can go years without an earthquake large enough to be felt, and several U.S. states have never reported a damaging earthquake.
She says people were better prepared when the Northridge earthquake hit 25 years ago because there had been a damaging earthquake in Los Angeles every year for the previous six years.
South Africa's deep mines are earthquake "laboratories", and I am participating in an international project that has drilled into the fault rupture that hosted the 2014 M5.5 Orkney earthquake.
Common combinations with earthquake
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the earthquake 64×
- an earthquake 29×
- earthquake in 24×
- earthquake that 19×
- magnitude earthquake 15×
- major earthquake 10×
- devastating earthquake 10×
- earthquake struck 8×
- earthquake hit 8×
- earthquake and 7×