Sentence examples for powerful shocks from inspiring English sources

The magnitude 9 earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March was one of the five most powerful shocks recorded; so powerful that it lowered the coastline by a metre and nudged Japan two metres closer to the United States.

In big waves, where brute strength and stability become critical factors, his height, combined with his hunkered-down style, seems to work to his advantage: he uses it to lever the long, hard, high-speed turns that big waves avail, and to absorb the sharp, powerful shocks that even small irregularities in the surface transmit at high speed.

China urgently needs to "Greece-proof" itself to avoid powerful shocks that will undoubtedly come if Greece leaves the euro, a leading Chinese economist says, amid the sound of screeching brakes from an economy that has been looked to for world growth.

Electric eels produce the most powerful shocks of any fish.

And indeed, the economic world has been hit by some powerful shocks in the past year in the form of higher energy and commodity prices and a credit crisis.

Stephen King felt that one of the film's most powerful shocks — the discovery of Elizabeth's hideously decayed corpse — had a major impact on the genre and served as one of the most significant horror sequences of the decade.

And last February, Saks sent off powerful shock waves.

This produces a powerful shock wave that is heard as thunder.

As Nobelist Chris Sims has noted, that's an extraordinarily powerful shock absorber.

A powerful shock wave quickly radiated up and down from the impact zone.

To be disabused of a fantasy is always a powerful shock.