Sentence examples for a huge quake from inspiring English sources

Kei Kawai, a senior product manager at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., was relaxing at home on that March Friday, when he learned that a huge quake had hit not far from Sendai, his home city.

Living with the ever-present threat of the Big One – a huge quake that experts say is due to strike Tokyo in the coming decades – has turned the city into the world capital of disaster readiness, according to 2020 organising officials.

When a devastating megaquake rocked the region north of Tokyo in March, nobody saw such a huge quake coming.

Although most recent ones have been relatively minor, the city of Basel experienced a huge quake in 1356.

The utility said it also plans to cover the reactor building, which was hit by a huge quake and tsunami on 11 March.

"There could always be a huge quake tomorrow," allows actuary and former Texas insurance commissioner J. Robert Hunter, "but there's no question that it was a very bad deal [for the CEA]." Spotting a good thing, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway offered to reinsure the $1.5 billion of risk originally slated for the capital markets.

8 Major Quake Strikes Asia A huge earthquake hit Southeast Asia, setting off tidal waves that killed more than 150 people in Sri Lanka, sent residents rushing to high ground in Indonesia and washed into the Indian city of Chennai.

The papers also point to a possible huge quake to the south, closer to Tokyo.

NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A8 Iran Quake Survivor Found Thirteen days after a huge earthquake struck Bam, Iran, a 57-year-old man was pulled from the rubble, weak and ill but alive.

The Hayward fault historically causes a huge earthquake every 140 years and it has been 147 years since the last major quake on the fault.

But another voiced suspicion that the Americans were spies -- why had they waited a full five days after the huge quake to show up? -- while Mr. Hashemi fretted that a pillar of Iran's Islamic Revolution might be crumbling.