Sentence examples for earthquake back from inspiring English sources

Hundreds died in Port-au-Prince in an earthquake back in June 1770, and the huge earthquake of 7 May 1842 may have killed 10,000 in the northern city of Cap ­Haitien alone.

Awakened by a relative at 1 30 a.m. yesterday with news of an earthquake back home in India, he began calling his father in Ahmedabad, one of the hardest-hit cities.

This book, she writes: "is my attempt to put Haiti back together again for myself, to understand why all the simplest hopes and dreams of the men and women they call Fred Voodoo have been abandoned, and to stack the pieces flung apart by the earthquake back up into some semblance of the real country.

Within two weeks of the quake, Wilentz was back in Haiti, trying, as she says, "to put Haiti back together again for myself,... to stack the pieces flung apart by the earthquake back up into some semblance of the real country".

No doubt, since it caused a small, but literal, earthquake back home.

Many of the 120 fatalities from the magnitude 6.4 Long Beach, California earthquake back in 1933 occurred when people ran outside of buildings only to be killed by falling debris from collapsing walls.

The man who scored the winner in that All Star game, Eddie Johnson, should be back in action for Seattle at Colorado Rapids, while the player who opened the scoring, Chris Wondolowski, will try to get San Jose Earthquakes back on track against Chicago Fire.

The vertical gray bands indicate wave arrivals discussed in the text; the P and S arrivals are also shown in Fig. 2. For all nine explosion earthquakes, back azimuths of P waves, when maximum semblance values in the P wave window met or exceeded a threshold value of 0.7 (Fig. 4), pointed mostly directly toward Shinmoedake crater or slightly north of it.

Inverardi, who was dean of the science faculty at the time of the earthquake, moved back into her home last year.

Colleen Tully of Boston said the brief panic caused by the earthquake brought back memories of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

By contrast, in Los Angeles, most of 11 freeways knocked down in the 1994 Northridge earthquake were back up and running within a year.