Sentence examples for felt a quake from inspiring English sources

Though he has never felt a quake, Justin Kwong, 9, said getting under the desks with his whole class and the mayor was at least as much fun as recess.

Can the East Coast feel a quake from California? Nope.

Californians also know to ask two questions when they feel a quake, and to use two different measures for quakes.

Every 10 years the country will feel a magnitude 4.5 quake and, on average, a magnitude 5.5 every 100 years.

At Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, an elephant named Chai, who recently generated national attention by giving birth, appeared startled and rose up on her feet several seconds before her handlers, who were trying to draw a blood sample, felt the quake's vibrations.

"This earthquake didn't actually do very much damage because it happened between some very heavily populated areas," said Meredith Nettles, a geophysicist at Columbia University who felt the quake in her office at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.

A freelance writer based in Mumbai, Nicola Desouza was in Kirtipur for a 10-day Vipassana meditation residential when she felt the quake.

Ricky Kennedy, 29, an account director for Thomson Reuters in Times Square, said he felt the quake roll his rolling chair, but "laughed it off".

Well, 20 million people felt that quake.

"People on land felt the quake and ran to higher ground," he said.

Residents in the west and north of Sumatra island also felt the quake.