quake
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Local media quoted the operator of the mall, which was evacuated before being ripped apart by the suspected gas blast over an hour after Tuesday's quake, as saying that all employees were now accounted for.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Power and water outages have affected tens of thousands of buildings, leaving residents sweltering and thirsty, and fearing yet another repeat of the quake that struck 10 years ago.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Hiroko Ogata, a 75-year-old restaurant owner in the city of Yatsushiro, told the BBC she hid under a table at her restaurant when the quake struck and swayed violently along with it.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
"The last quake 10 years ago was nothing like this one," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Dragon thundered, in a voice that even made Minli quake.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
It immediately brought back memories of a pair of quakes a decade ago in Kumamoto that killed more than 200 people and caused heavy damage at the mall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, experiencing about 1,500 quakes a year.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
An early UN damage assessment, released about a week after the quakes, estimated direct physical damage from the disaster was far higher, putting it at $37 billion.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The 56-year-old believes she survived the horrific quakes for a reason.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Three more large quakes, each larger than magnitude 6, followed that same day.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
He was so influential that two presidents, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, quaked under fear of incurring McCarthy's wrath.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
But on board, the 12-year-old girl quaked with fear.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Neither Pinterest nor the patriarchy quaked in its boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Connors once bent strings wildly, as if the entire guitar quaked beneath his blues.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
I pushed my fat pink eraser over the See me and tried to look up at the board like nothing was wrong, but my stomach quaked.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
But while Wembanyama is having the time of his life, every other team in the league is quaking in its boots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Troubles, however, are also quaking on the offensive side of America’s nuclear-weapons enterprise—specifically, the program to build a new land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel, to replace the 400 current ICBMs, known as Minuteman IIIs.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2025
The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
Treinen was hardly quaking in his cleats, despite the fine mess he had gotten himself into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024
"I heard him, Harry!" the mother shrieked, still quaking.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 5
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