Sentence examples for of a quake from inspiring English sources
Extending this point, although the magnitude is smaller, other factors must be considered when assessing the strength of a quake.
But to survivors of a quake like this one there is no such thing as wide open enough.
Emergency barriers are designed to block access at the first sign of a quake, and construction closes the road on some weekends.
Kyushu Electric Power won the regulator's approval partly by increasing its estimates for how much shaking the Sendai plant could withstand in the event of a quake.
Instead, seismologists have focused on the less precise goal of forecasting the probability of a quake happening in a given period of time, based on past occurrences.
They grind slowly onward though, moved relentlessly by that underground current, eventually breaking the hold, setting off the reverberations of a quake.
What we are discovering is that no human preparation can ensure safety for a quake of that magnitude.
Another neighborhood that benefited from the razing of a quake-damaged freeway is Hayes Valley.
There had been a report of a quake-related fatality Wednesday night in suburban Seattle, but officials at the King County Emergency Operations Center said today that they were unsure of the cause of death of the victim, a 66-year-old woman, and that she might have died earlier.
It is in the face of a quaking soldier waiting for the gang to attack and in Laura's mute terror as the drug boss tapes packets of cash to her waist.
According to Amod Dixit of the National Society for Earthquake Technology, a quake of the same magnitude today would leave 40,000 dead and 100,000 needing hospital treatment.
