In conservative Arab Muslim society, the sexual aspect of the case "is something shocking, an earthquake," said Mahdi Abdul Hadi, an independent Palestinian analyst and director of Passia, a research institute in East Jerusalem.
Look no further than the Earthquakes somewhat shocking 2-1 win at Real Salt Lake.
Haiti's infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble.
She says the most shocking thing about the latest earthquake wasn't the terrible injuries that some people had suffered: "We're used to those, we know how to deal with them".
Shocking moment to shocking moment.
"All those others did not come after an earthquake, an earthquake that was a shocking and brutal event for the rest of the world," said Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, in an interview.
The unfortunate placement of the color advertisement next to the black and white photos of the devastating personal stories of loss and survival following the earthquake in Haiti was disturbing and shocking.
Six months after the Haiti earthquake, Disaster Accountability Project released a report detailing a "shocking lack of transparency" in Haiti relief operations.
And — this is the part that is not just shocking but earthshaking, suggesting comets bouncing off the heads of dinosaurs, the Lisbon earthquake, and the storming of the Bastille — the entire supplement, created for the French edition, was published in English.
Triggered by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, the Indian Ocean tsunami brought shocking amounts of death and destruction across Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and as far away as East Africa.
