Sentence examples for earthquake set from inspiring English sources

The situation has gone from bad to worse because the earthquake set off a dangerous diaspora.

Scientists suspect that a strong earthquake set off a submarine landslide, which in turn produced the tsunami.

The impact triggered magnitude 10.8 earthquakes (100 times larger than the 2011 Japanese earthquake), set off tsunamis, and heated the atmosphere enough to make oceans boil.

At least 15 people were killed and 42 were still missing on Friday after an earthquake set off landslides in the verdant mountains of northern Costa Rica.

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north.

The company said the force of the earthquake set off a string of accidents, including a spill of slightly radioactive water and an earlier leak of radioactive material into an exhaust filter.

Less commonly, Dr. Heaton said, a magnitude two earthquake sets off a magnitude three earthquake and so on up the scale of earthshaking power.

One federal judge, ruling against opponents of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near San Luis Obispo, Calif., said that the odds of an earthquake setting off a nuclear accident at the plant were negligible.

"Liquefaction is a phenomenon that prevails in any earthquake setting," Jones said.

"Nothing goes off suddenly; even the earthquakes set in motion from the depth of the earth to the rooftops of villages".

As many as 100 people are feared dead after two earthquakes set off a landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.