quake

Alfonso Malpica said he felt his ground floor flat in Granada shaking, telling El País newspaper that the quake was "stronger than the ones that happen from time to time, the ones we're used to".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

On Sunday night, rescuers successfully reached a village on Palue Island, just north of Flores's mainland, that had been cut off for nearly two full days after the initial quake.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Many Flores residents have traumatic memories of another 7.7-magnitude quake that hit the island in 1992, triggering a tsunami and killing about 2,500.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

The epicentre of the shallow quake was just north of Flores island in eastern Indonesia.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Scientists rate the strength of an earthquake using the moment magnitude scale, a system that gauges the amount of energy released by the quake and assigns it a number.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The priciest options are designed especially for athletes, and Dos Santos -- who himself lost two legs in a car accident -- has visited this cohort following the quakes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

But, shortly after 6 p.m. on June 24, the two powerful quakes struck just 39 seconds apart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The devastation comes less than two months after powerful twin quakes rattled neighboring Venezuela, killing more than 6,300 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 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

Even more unnerving, because they are less well understood and capable of occurring anywhere at any time, are the rarer type of shakings known as intraplate quakes.

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

Neither Pinterest nor the patriarchy quaked in its boots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

As the speakers quaked and made face-to-face conversations inaudible, it felt as though the energy of a rising, surprising team thumped along with the bass.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022

The enlisted men quaked whenever he was in view.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

I doubt the Kremlin will be quaking in its clogs over such an answer.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

Tree-ear pulled in the muscles of his stomach to stop their quaking.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park