Sentence examples for devastating temblor from inspiring English sources

And so it was with the devastating temblor that tore through Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, last week, toppling houses large and small, and trapping and traumatizing residents no matter where they stood on Haiti's complicated social scale.

This response pleased many earthquake experts, who have long struggled to get the public to focus more on the risk of a devastating temblor.

A sprawling $200-million commercial and residential development under construction next to the Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard was approved by Los Angeles city officials without a seismic evaluation, even though it sits next to an active earthquake fault capable of producing a devastating temblor, according to records and interviews.

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will travel to Sikkim on Wednesday to meet victims of Sunday's devastating earthquake and their families. CNN-IBN) The official death toll in Sunday's powerful temblor has shot up to 68 in India, including 53 in the Himalayan state, while more than 3,000 people have been rescued by defense forces. CNN-IBN

Sometime in the future, cafés in Kathmandu will be abuzz about a devastating magnitude-8 earthquake, except this time the temblor will have been half a world away, in California, where the San Andreas Fault will have finally ruptured after a long period of dormancy.

"Nova" recalls the 2015 temblor that devastated Nepal and rocked climbers on Mount Everest in the new episode "Himalayan Megaquake".

A massive magnitude-9.0 temblor struck off the coast of Sendai on March 11 , 2011 itself producing some damage but also generating a series of devastating tsunamis along the coast of northeastern Japan.

Just devastating.

Quietly devastating.

Devastating, even.

Absolutely devastating!