"When that capacity had been proved and the Pakistani military down through the ranks saw the mountain shake, the Pakistanis said, 'We can equal these guys,' " said Mr. Perkovich, the expert on India's nuclear program.
They all laugh, feel the mountain shake until it no longer does.
The mountain shook as globs of red-hot lava were thrown hundreds of feet over our heads.
HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 7 — Efforts to reach six trapped coal miners came to a crawl on Tuesday as continued seismic activity forced out rescue teams, and drilling equipment began slowly chewing through thousands of feet of rock to where the men were working early Monday when parts of the mountain shook and fell.
A14 6 Miners Remain Trapped Efforts to reach six trapped coal miners were reduced to a crawl as rescue teams pulled back for safety reasons, and drilling equipment began slowly chewing through thousands of feet of rock to where the men were working when parts of the mountain shook and fell.
I was on the shaking trail of the trembling mountain, shaking with fear, trembling with terror, looking down 2000 feet, as lava just to my left flowed swiftly down to the sea below, making for white billows of waves and steam.
Therefore we will not fear even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling.
No gimmicks are required to appreciate the beauty of the scenery, nor the startling purity of the mountain air, but the hobbits' quest, and mine, must come to its conclusion in a very different place – a place where the mountains shake and the earth is alive to its core.
Scripture tells us to trust to God "though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult".
We can be reasonably confident that Earth will, as Darwin wrote, keep "cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity," hurtling and pirouetting through space, its plates sliding and sometimes lurching, its mountains shaking themselves free of accumulated clutter, its mantle slowly repairing old dents.
But the appetite for timber has stripped the forest from nearby slopes, leading to landslides when the mountains shook during the quake.
