Sentence examples for strong quake from inspiring English sources

Last year fishing facilities were damaged by a tsunami caused by a strong quake in Chile.

I told her that I thought the risk of being in a strong quake was far higher in Japan.

A powerful earthquake has struck the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, the fourth strong quake to hit the South Pacific island nation in a week.

The scientists put the time between such ruptures at 250 to 4,000 years, meaning a strong quake could occur as early as the middle of this century.

The undersea earthquake that caused the Samoan tsunami and the latest strong quake in Indonesia, while from similar causes, were not directly connected, according to Julie Dutton, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.

A visitor to this city, which seemed to sustain the most damage in the area, might be surprised to hear that such a strong quake had rumbled through the day before, causing only two deaths and scores of mostly minor injuries and damaging several buildings.

L'Aquila sits in a seismic area (and had to be mostly rebuilt after the last major quake in 1703), so residents were "used to earthquakes, and to sleeping outside in the cars in case of particularly strong quakes," said Roberta Galeotti, editor of the Abruzzo online news site ilcapoluogo.it.

The East German scientist who came to politics only after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 seemed to echo some of the fervor of those times: Although Germany is not known for tsunamis, or strong quakes, she said the risks of a nuclear accident were just too enormous to be controlled by humans.

While those faults sit in the middle of the North American tectonic plate — far from any boundaries whose interaction can produce the strong quakes experienced in more active seismic areas like California — they are accumulating stresses as the plate is gradually pushed west.

McCue says New Zealand's earthquake hazard maps anticipate strong quakes emanating from the complex faults in those boundaries.

The report mentioned that some past earthquakes in Italy were followed by equally strong quakes not much later.