Sentence examples for disastrous quake from inspiring English sources

Its economy largely shook off the effects of a disastrous quake that struck the city of Kobe in 1995, thanks to an all-out recovery effort.

Most economists are betting that Chile's prudent economic management leading up to the disastrous quake, and the intense rebuilding effort now needed in some parts of the country, will help it weather the economic shocks better than most countries could.

Tectonic movement along the fault has been associated with occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along its path, including a disastrous quake in San Francisco in 1906, a less serious event there in 1989, and a strong and destructive quake centred in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge in 1994 that occurred along one of the San Andreas's larger secondary faults.

Those include the disastrous quakes in Haiti, Chile and this month's widely felt shaking centered in Baja California.

Six weeks after a disastrous earthquake and two weeks after a second major quake, Salvadoran officials say assistance from abroad, especially the United States, is lagging.

But at a time when the disastrous earthquake in Haiti on Jan . 12has refocused global attention on the earth's immense store of tectonic energy, scientists say that the Yellowstone swarm, if only because of its volume, bears close observation: as of Sunday, there had been 1,608 quakes since Jan . 17

The quake is doubly disastrous for Ecuador as economic growth was already forecast near zero this year due to plunging oil income.

Some such quakes have been disastrous, like the one in 1967 associated with the Koyna Dam in India, Dr. Seeber said.

A number of these temblors have been disastrous, such as one that devastated the towns of Napier and Hastings in 1931 and a series of quakes that did likewise in Christchurch in 2010 11.

Potentially disastrous.

Or Quake?