Sentence examples for earthquake collapsed from inspiring English sources
The most notorious, the San Andreas Fault, produced the 1906 earthquake that leveled most of the city as well as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake collapsed portions of the freeway and the Bay Bridge.
Ranveig Tveitnes, the deputy leader of the Norwegian Red Cross team in the hard-hit city of Chautara, said many of the houses in town that had survived the first earthquake collapsed entirely on Tuesday, and the road through town that had been painstakingly cleared of debris was again blocked by rubble.
The tower of the historic Lyttelton Timeball Station, which sustained damage from the February 2011 earthquake, collapsed after plans to dismantle the building had been initiated.
The earthquake collapsed part of the mosque's façade and caused severe structural damage to the interior columns; as a result, the community feared that the mosque would collapse.
A creature of mystery, birthed by a blacksmith after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake collapsed a section of the original upper deck, the troll has been lodged on a protected northern steel perch for 24 years.
After the San Francisco earthquake collapsed a double-deck section of the Nimitz Freeway, killing 42 people, engineers retracted the predictions, saying they had no "specific knowledge" that 100 deaths could occur.
A series of earthquakes collapsed shafts deep within a huge gold mine, owned by DRDGold Limited, 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg, initially trapping 42 miners.
In the recent Sichuan earthquake in Ya'an on 20 April, it was reported that none of the buildings built since the Sichuan earthquakes collapsed.
The line has routinely succumbed to floods, earthquakes, collapsed tunnels, fires, rock slides, broken trestles and financial ruin.
resembled that great colossus that during an earthquake had collapsed in a few moments while everyone hurried along to enrich himself with the fragments.
Especially during a mayoral election year when Oakland was still digging out of the rubble from last October's earthquake, which collapsed Interstate 880 and many downtown buildings.
