Sentence examples for shock struck from inspiring English sources

A major interplanetary shock struck the magnetosphere at 03 32 UT on March 24 , 1991 leading to a severe geomagnetic storm.

The woman gasped; a look of shock struck her lips, which quickly morphed into a smile.

The problems considered are an isolated shock, an isolated contact, a modified Sod shock tube problem, a two-shock Riemann problem, the Shu Osher test problem, shock impingement on single cylinder, and irregular Mach reflection of a strong shock striking an inclined plane.

From that time, grave shocks struck its economy, and these, combined with failure in war, led to another brief experiment in signorial rule; in 1342 a protégé of King Robert, Walter of Brienne, titular duke of Athens, was appointed signore for one year.

We're shocked, struck by the loss not just of his life, but also at the loss of so many lives to severe depression.

I use that exact word because Mountain left both an impression on me and, as the Italians use the word "impressione" literally, it shocked, struck and shook me, profoundly.

The meticulous dramatization of events intended to shock strikes me as the moral equivalent of pornography.

Even the massive 8.8-magnitude shock that struck the country's centre in February 2010 caused little structural damage in Santiago, thanks to state-of-the-art architecture and strictly enforced construction codes.

One of the largest aftershocks, a magnitude 5.4, occurred about three months later from the main shock, and struck on the San Jacinto fault, Lozos said.

The most powerful earthquake known to have occurred in the continental United States — the so-called New Madrid quake, a series of four huge shocks that struck what is now southeastern Missouri in 1811 and 1812 — rerouted the Mississippi River and could be felt on the East Coast, yet it killed fewer than a hundred people because the area above the epicenter was so sparsely settled.

The entire seismic sequence consisted of more than 2200 shocks that struck an area of about 50 × 15 km2, extended in west to east direction, with only six events of magnitude M w ≥ 5.