The shock wave shattered the thinnest bone of the skull and the soft tissues at the base of her jaw/neck were damaged.
The family hadn't evacuated their home in Tacloban – Ethel believed they would weather the storm, as they had every other – so when the tidal wave shattered the floor from underneath their feet, and the ships came rolling across the land, they were swept out into the swirling black water.
The calamities in 2011 included wildfires that scorched millions of acres, extreme flooding in the Upper Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley and heat waves that shattered records in many parts of the country.
About a minute later, they were buffeted by a thunderous shock wave that shattered windows and caused hundreds of injuries.
The asteroid's disintegration caused a shock wave that shattered windows and caused hundreds of injuries and major property damage.
But this relatively modest, unseen space rock caused a shock wave that shattered countless windows in the city and injured more than a thousand people.
The sound waves also shatter the ear bones of dolphins and whales that depend on their hearing to feed.
In the meantime, she had begun publishing essays, and though she went on thinking of herself as a fiction writer — "I consider my novels much more important," she said in 1969 when an NBC interviewer asked her about her essays — she threw herself into critical writing, concentrating on the sort of New Wave, shattered-consciousness art that she herself had tried to produce.
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"We'd have between fifteen and thirty seconds to get over to the core," he went on — meaning the center of the building, by the elevators, away from the windows, which the blast wave would shatter.
