Sentence examples for weekend earthquake from inspiring English sources

A weekend earthquake in Southern California was felt by millions and sent at least one person to the hospital, but the region avoided any significant damage or major injuries.

Helicopters have been crisscrossing the skies above the mountains of Gorkha district in Nepal, ferrying the injured to clinics, and taking emergency supplies back to remote villages near the epicentre of the weekend earthquake that has killed more than 4,400 people across the region.

Copper prices rose Monday because of concerns over supply disruptions following the weekend earthquake in Chile.

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.

The weekend's earthquakes came as Japan was cleaning up from last week's typhoon, the most lethal storm in two decades, which killed 80 people.

Liberty guard Cappie Pondexter apologized for Twitter postings over the weekend about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Among the more sketchily reported rescues in the aftermath of the weekend's catastrophic earthquake in Nepal was the successful extraction of some two hundred and eighty Chinese workers and engineers from the construction site of the Rasuwagadhi hydropower dam, on the upper reaches of the Trishuli river, a tributary of the Narayani.

HONG KONG — It was a year ago this weekend that the earthquake and tsunami tore into Japan, and in those terrible first days my colleague in the Tokyo bureau, Martin Fackler, reached some of the most devastated towns and hamlets along the northeastern coast.

In Nepal emergency aid is beginning to reach the remote communities worst hit by the weekend's devastating earthquake.

This weekend the San Jose Earthquakes entertain the Columbus Crew, with The Crew coming off their first win since March 31st - a 2-1 victoverover FC Dallas that featured the first MLS goal by second year forward Justin Meram.

With the world turning its focus to Japan on the anniversary this weekend of the great earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Honshu island and wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex there, I invited Weart to muse on the consequences, which have been far more economic and psychological than radiological.