Sentence examples for sudden earthquake from inspiring English sources

Rachel Wolff, a spokeswoman for World Vision, explained that "rapid-onset disasters," like a sudden earthquake, tend to get more attention and more donations.

As a result, perhaps, my Japanese neighbors seem unusually good at adapting themselves to circumstance -- fire or nuclear meltdown, sudden earthquake or infidelity (to which the local response is nearly always "It can't be helped") -- and unusually good at following orders (hence, perhaps, their celebrated brutality in war).

To investigate CA1 neural activity patterns during and after learning period, we exposed naive mice to four types of the fearful episodic events: 1) A sudden drop of animal in a small elevator (Elevator-Drop); 2) A sudden air-blow to animal's back (Air-Blow); 3) A sudden earthquake imitated by shaking the animal in its cage via vortex machine (Quake); and 4) A startling acoustic sound (Sound).

Poor reflectivity may lead to failure to recognize the existence of active faults until they are revealed by sudden earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks, if they were active faults.

For example, a sudden weekend earthquake or hurricane that roils an insurance company stock will drive investors to "re-hedge" their positions with derivatives on Monday morning.

Geological faults can release the pressure in three ways: a steady slippage called creep, a stuttering series of nearly imperceptible microquakes, or a sudden catastrophic earthquake.

Damage due to an unforeseeable sudden event fire, flood, earthquake, even vandalism.

The eruption was preceded by a sudden increase in earthquake activity and occurred during a rain storm.

Geoscientists classify the inner Earth's layers according to the changes in rock type, which are often indicated by sudden changes in earthquake wave speeds.

While examining the differential TEC variations during and after the earthquakes, it was noticed that approximately 10 to 12 min after the occurrence of both earthquakes, sudden irregular TEC fluctuations were observed by more than one satellite at various GPS sites on 11 April 2012.

Taking Ben to see "The Bridge on the River Kwai" I think of X, who, suffering from melancholy, walked through the city looking for moving pictures that dealt with cruel and sudden death, torture, earthquakes, floods, and assassinations with any human misery that would, briefly, make his own burdens seem lighter.