Sentence examples for heavy shaking from inspiring English sources

In Banda Aceh, at the northern end of Sumatra, the hurried, spontaneous evacuation came after several minutes of heavy shaking.

People near the epicenter of an earthquake in the range of 5.2 experience "heavy shaking and things being knocked off shelves," Ms. Jorgenson said.

It survived heavy shaking in the 1971 Sylmar quake and again in the 1994 Northridge quake with minimal long-term damage or disruption of the water supply for firefighters — an admirable track record in a city that imports nine-tenths of its water across an active fault line.

When early reports by seismologists put ground zero across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Mr. Giuliani appeared on television from outside a courier company in Long Island City, Queens, where some heavy shaking had been reported, and proclaimed that the earthquake occurred first and its effect was biggest beneath his city.

Cellphone towers in areas that experience heavy shaking could collapse or be damaged, experts say.

"We felt quite heavy shaking for about 10 seconds and started to evacuate the building when there was another strong tremor," said Vincent Panzani of charity Save the Children.

People would not have time to evacuate, but they might have enough time before the heaviest shaking to move to a safer location in a doorway or under a desk.

That, plus roofs of heavy shakes and ample ventilation, render air-conditioning and heating unnecessary.

Near the end there was reportedly a heavy shake and the cabin tilted sharply to one side.

The screaming is said to intensify after a heavy shake as the aircraft careers towards the mountain, possibly showing the moment its right wing was struck.

In neighboring Oakland, the East Bay's largest city, roughly eighty-five per cent of the residential dwellings built before seismic provisions were introduced to building codes remain highly vulnerable to heavy ground shaking.