earthquakes
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Ayumi T, who lives in Tokyo, has kept an emergency bag for years in case of events like earthquakes, typhoons and extreme heat.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
It was an era of climate change, supply chain collapse, earthquakes, famine, disease, migration, drought and armed incursions and invasions.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
“You live in Florida, you worry about hurricanes. You live in California, you worry about earthquakes, mudslides,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
On average, Japan experiences about two thousand earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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