Sentence examples for earthquake started from inspiring English sources

The earthquake started slowly, then intensified within a minute.

In San Francisco the earthquake started a fire that destroyed the central business district.

It is closed off to all but the demolition, engineering and building crews who, bit by bit, are finishing the deconstruction work that the fatal earthquake started in February 2011.

Seventy-eight-year-old Chamorro still remembers waking up at 3 34am when the earthquake started: "I thought I could hear rain on the roof but it was the sound of tiles, cracking and falling to the ground," she says.

"We were serving lunch to the lawmakers and the earthquake started and we felt that it was very strong," said Jacqueline Najarro, a 38-year-old food seller at the Congress in San Salvador.

Ballentine writes "An earthquake started, and kept going, fairly seriously, and from my chair I could see people running down the corridor toward the exit".

The earthquake starts gradually at depth to the west and ruptures an asperity offshore of Miyagi.

Small earthquakes started shaking on Sept. 23 around St. Helens, in Washington, which had not erupted since 1986.

The ground around the hulking reactor buildings was littered with mangled trucks, twisted metal beams and broken building frames, left mostly as they were after one of the world's largest recorded earthquakes started a chain reaction that devastated the region and, to some extent, Japan.

Relatively high-quality observations of small earthquakes started at the beginning of 1980.

The recording of earthquakes started as far back in 16 11 century BC.