Sentence examples for quake from inspiring English sources

In Britain, fears were growing over the welfare of several nationals who have not been heard from since the quake struck.

She lost another son in the 1954 quake.

Offers of help came from Mexico, the United States, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, Britain, Panama, even Guatemala, which itself suffered six deaths in the quake.

Distraught relatives lined up yesterday at an improvised morgue in a bloodstained alleyway to identify some of those mangled and entombed in Saturday's quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

There have been no reports of injuries or structural damage, so the 4.2-magnitude quake in the garden of England is ripe for ridicule.

Related: 'I thought it was a dream': Nepal quake survivor recalls moment disaster struck An international aid official said on Saturday that more helicopters were needed to get assistance to the farthest reaches of the country.

Anger is growing as hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the quake were yet to receive aid because of logistic bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and a chaotic government response.

With no refrigeration facilities, and bodies and body parts piling up in the alley near the quake-triggered landslide that covered Las Colinas in a wall of dirt, there was little choice but mass burial, said coroner Mario Alfredo Hernandez.

The Embassy was covertly leading Haiti's economic, policing and development policies, much as it is today openly leading Haiti's reconstruction, with former President Bill Clinton co-chairing the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, which decides how the $10bn pledged for Haiti's post-quake rebuilding will be spent.

On the other side of the globe, the Japanese have luxuriated since the Heian era in hot-spring onsen that dot their volcanic and quake-strewn archipelago.

The Iranian Red Crescent was hindered by the concentration of its stores and people in the quake-prone north.