Sentence examples for violent earthquake from inspiring English sources

FIRST came a violent earthquake.

Much the way the earth twists during a violent earthquake.

Troy VI was destroyed by a violent earthquake a little after 1300 bce.

On several occasions it was almost destroyed by fire, and in January 1907 it suffered a violent earthquake.

The casualty count in India keeps rising after the violent earthquake that convulsed the western state of Gujarat last Friday.

In 1907 a violent earthquake and accompanying fire struck Kingston and Port Royal, destroying or seriously damaging almost all of their buildings and killing about 800 people.

Suppose that the structures in a certain region, though built to withstand lesser earthquakes, are in the event of a violent earthquake--one registering over five on the Richter scale causally guaranteed to fall.

This makes it vulnerable to rare but violent earthquakes.

The eruption of Mount Etna, accompanied by violent earthquakes, continues.

The volcano began to signal its intentions with violent earthquakes in May 1883.

Because of the colliding plates, violent earthquakes are common, destroying cities and towns.