Sentence examples for lethal earthquake from inspiring English sources

According to Dr Bilham, if the death toll in Bhuj exceeds 19,500 as now seems likely it will have been the most lethal earthquake in the history of India.Despite that, most powerful Indian earthquakes tend to occur towards the north of the subcontinent (see map).

Most of all, it might take him some time to get reacquainted with a country whose landscape has been transformed since he left, by devastating hurricanes, a lethal earthquake, a raging cholera epidemic, and hundreds of thousands living under tents and tarps in the capital.

While Italians yesterday were coming to terms with a lethal earthquake that struck near the northern city of Modena the day before, killing at least 17 people, residents of L'Aquila a few hundred kilometers to the south were again focused on the devastating quake they experienced 3 years earlier.

The epicentre of the most lethal and destructive earthquake in Italy for almost 30 years lay a few kilometres outside the city.Its shock waves spread through L'Aquila, shaking to the ground a hotel and several apartment blocks.

Official figures place it as being twice as lethal as any previous earthquake of the same magnitude (Bilham 2010).

Haiti's health system was already in a fragile state and its impoverished population vulnerable to a range of lethal infectious diseases before the earthquake.

TOKYO — The threat of lethal tsunami waves from the earthquake in Chile forced more than 1.5 million people to higher ground in countries on the other side of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, but in the end small waves left only minor damage.

The organization has recently been in the spotlight as a result of an ongoing trial in L'Aquila, in which seven scientists and engineers who served on Italy's "Great Risks Commission"—including longtime INGV President Enzo Boschi face charges of manslaughter for allegedly downplaying the chances of a major earthquake before the lethal tremor that struck the city in April 2009.

Lethal environment in rubble The earthquake and destruction it left behind created an environment in which survivors are particularly vulnerable to the spread of disease.

Hundreds of so-called tsunami stones, some more than six centuries old, dot the coast of Japan, silent testimony to the past destruction that these lethal waves have frequented upon this earthquake-prone nation.

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