Sentence examples for a strong quake from inspiring English sources

Last year fishing facilities were damaged by a tsunami caused by a strong quake in Chile.

I told her that I thought the risk of being in a strong quake was far higher in Japan.

The scientists put the time between such ruptures at 250 to 4,000 years, meaning a strong quake could occur as early as the middle of this century.

A visitor to this city, which seemed to sustain the most damage in the area, might be surprised to hear that such a strong quake had rumbled through the day before, causing only two deaths and scores of mostly minor injuries and damaging several buildings.

In Sakaiminato, the closest city to the epicenter, at least six houses were destroyed in the 10-second quake at 1 30 p.m. "I've never experienced such a strong quake in my life," a woman in a nearby town, Yonago, told the NTV television network.

Despite what may be the world's most intensive effort to map faults and assess risks by a notoriously earthquake-prone and earthquake-conscious nation, such a strong quake was not anticipated for the region, says University of Tokyo geophysicist Robert Geller.

Most experts agree that a stronger quake, most likely along the San Andreas or the Hayward fault, in the East Bay, could cause a total collapse of the old span.

(AP) EL SALVADOR: POWERFUL QUAKE -- A strong earthquake rocked parts of Central America, including El Salvador, which is still reeling from the effects of two quakes earlier this year.

A16 Predicted Quake Hits California A strong earthquake rocked the central California town of Parkfield 11 years after scientists predicted it would occur.

A powerful earthquake has struck the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, the fourth strong quake to hit the South Pacific island nation in a week.

The undersea earthquake that caused the Samoan tsunami and the latest strong quake in Indonesia, while from similar causes, were not directly connected, according to Julie Dutton, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.