Sentence examples for severe shaking from inspiring English sources

There were indications from the earthquake damage that the ridge, in the suburb of Pétionville, had undergone severe shaking.

Eight Haitian towns and cities suffered "violent" to "extreme" shaking, whereas Chilean urban areas did not suffer more than "severe" shaking: still horrible, but a let-off.

They escaped miraculously with a severe shaking up, but four of the passengers in the last carriage of the local train were injured.

Based on the acceleration response spectra and natural periods of the structures in Turkey, it is concluded that the buildings with three to four stories in Bingöl should have been subjected to severe shaking.

6 50 p.m.: This article was updated to reflect that intensity 9, or "severe," shaking has been recorded in Mexico, the same level of shaking intensity felt in the worst-hit region in the Northridge earthquake.

With a shallow focus of 13 km (8 mi), the earthquake was centred inland about 36 km (22 mi) west of Iwaki, causing widespread strong to locally severe shaking.

Various complications, though not severe, shook both myself and, of course, the mother.

"There has been the repricing of risk since a very severe shake to global financial markets," he said.

More specifically, the Arab spring has led to a severe shake-up of all accepted truths about North Africa, which until now has normally been known to the world through French eyes.

But he admits that a severe shake-up might be necessary if, as expected, the country that invented the sevens game was to lose out on being one of the nine venues to France from next year.

The test matched-up very severe ground shaking with very strong construction.