Sentence examples for big tremors from inspiring English sources

Japan's extensive network of detection equipment completely missed four big tremors in the early 1990s.

This latest quake follows the same pattern as a duo of big tremors that occurred over 700 years ago, and results from a domino effect of strain transferring along the fault, geologists say.

Two big tremors last April and May killed 9,000 people, injured more than 22,000, and damaged or destroyed more than 900,000 houses, forcing many to brave freezing temperatures in shelters made of tarpaulins and corrugated iron sheets.

"The next big tremor," he said, "came when the Aussies took the cup away in 1983.

The anti-American protests were the biggest since the toppling of the Taliban regime in 2001.An earthquake killed some 6,200 people in Indonesia, the third big tremor to strike the country in the past 17 months.

He meant I.R.S. agents, and although it was an isolated flub, it was an example of the kind of small verbal spasm that could cause a big tremor in a debate.

The council is supposed to make such warnings possible.The nearest that it has got to predicting a big tremor was in 1983 when a foreshock pointed a finger at a subsequent magnitude 7.7 earthquake within the Sea of Japan.

They want their buildings to survive the next big tremor.

There was such a big tremor that I thought it would collapse, although it didn't.

And, of course, another big tremor does nothing for the frayed nerves of an already anxious population.

Tuesday's big tremor may well have filled a hole between what we saw on 25 April and some historic events - such as those in 1934, that occurred further still to the east.