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quake

[kwayk] / kweɪk /




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While no deaths have been reported from the quake, about 30 people have been treated for minor injuries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The quake was registered as occurring at a depth of just 12km.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Nearly 1,100 people reported feeling Sunday’s quake, according to the USGS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

No injuries were reported from that quake, possibly because there were fewer people in the streets at that hour, although damage was reported in some buildings.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Blanca saw her mother serve the food on plates of handcrafted clay, such as was used for making bricks, since all the dishes had perished in the quake.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

La Guaira, home to a popular resort of the same name 40 kilometers from Venezuela's capital Caracas, was devastated by powerful back-to-back quakes on June 24 that left over 6,500 people dead.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

In my new study, I used seismic stations in Antarctica itself to look for signs of these quakes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

The quakes hit as La Guaira was marking the feast of San Juan, an annual celebration featuring the ritual beating of drums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The quake comes less than two months after twin quakes devastated the north of neighbouring Venezuela, killing more than 6,100 people.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

On January 23 and February 4 further quakes of similar magnitude followed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

It was just past 6 p.m. on Saturday, and the leader board quaked with highbrow talent and highfalutin rankings.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022

Diggins-Smith’s straightforward words were weighted as her voice quaked with frustration and anguish shone in her eyes.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2022

Lula quaked in front of me, shivering all the way to the tips of her braids.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The overall sound is highly dramatic, with massed voices, quaking beats, horses whinnying in the distance, and percussion that evokes the threat of a rattlesnake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025

Seismologists in the region must have been alarmed by the quaking activity that occurred at Wednesday’s opening when Betts heaved all her might into Evillene’s “Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

My legs quaking, I quickly made my way into the group and found my mother.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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