- plural of earthquake.
earthquakes
Example Sentences
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The park service said earthquakes during the 2018 Kīlauea volcano eruption and summit collapse had damaged the cliffs near the arch.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nobody knows where the Shakespeare nickname came from, but city officials designated the bridge as L.A.’s Historic-Cultural Monument No. 126 in 1974 and retrofitted it in the 1990s to better withstand earthquakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Powerful earthquakes are one of the events capable of triggering these submarine landslides.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Goldfinger has been investigating the possibility of linked earthquakes for decades, and the roots of the new research stretch back to an ocean expedition in 1999.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Personally, I think, what it is, is many tiny earthquakes one right after another,” said Malone.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
