earthquake
Example Sentences
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His first thought was that there might’ve been an earthquake, and he worried that something might’ve happened to his wife and kids.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
"It was like an earthquake beneath us," he recalls.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
To blithely swivel so much concrete out into space, and in earthquake country, seems to tempt fate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Neighbouring Arab Gulf states have frequently expressed concerns about the plant's reliability and raised the risk of radioactive leaks in the event of a major earthquake.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
This was a new type of earthquake at Mount St. Helens: a harmonic tremor.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Vocabulary lists containing earthquake
Physical Geography - Introductory
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