Sentence examples for earthquake setting from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

In Earthquake, set in a noisy cocktail bar, a man registers his horror at a recent tsunami to a woman for whom it is simply a series of TV images.

There are around 100 climbers at camps 1 and 2 on Mount Everest, above base camp, and all are safe after an earthquake set off an avalanche, the head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said on Sunday.

Yesterday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off the automatic shut-down systems in ten of Japan's 55 nuclear power plants, from which the country gets a third of its electricity.

At the Fukushima plant in Japan, an earthquake set off a tsunami that wiped out the diesel generators, and the quake itself shut off the grid and key electrical switches.