How to Use earthquake in a Sentence

earthquake

noun

• The drought of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault will not last.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Almost all of Japan felt the rumbles of the earthquake.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• These aren’t the first earthquakes to shake the area recently.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• The earthquake occurred at a depth of roughly four miles, the USGA said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• In the last act, the vitrines tilt every which way, as if after an earthquake.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• After the 1985 earthquake, the Centro was all but abandoned.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• The earthquake, which killed at least 2,901 people, was the worst to hit Morocco in more than a hundred years.
  — Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Each earthquake occurred within five miles of the other one.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• Most San Diegans have been told to drop, cover and hold, but there’s much more to know about earthquake safety.
  — Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
• As the anniversary of the earthquake approached, Ibrahim and Pinar were still healing, slowly.
  — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• That change in stress causes earthquakes over time, Sonder said.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• The key question, Lebedev added, is why Ireland has so few earthquakes.
  — Elise Cutts, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• People think about the sounds and feelings of an earthquake, Furino said.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• His show caused the ground to shake so much that locals feared there was an earthquake, causing calls for a concert ban at the historic venue in the future.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Aug. 2023
• Some residents of the Los Angeles area kicked off 2024 with some slight shaking as an earthquake hit the area.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024
• But Meier believes those earthquakes were due to poor planning on the part of engineers—avoidable, with more careful study of the rocks.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Of those doze bottles, one was destroyed by an earthquake in Japan in 2011, making this whisky even more of a rarity.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023
• According to the brand, the tiny home can withstand the elements like high winds and even low-magnitude earthquakes.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• The best way to protect yourself during an earthquake is to drop, cover and hold on, officials say.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 29 Feb. 2024
• At a cemetery for earthquake victims on the road into Antakya, hundreds of graves lined a hillside.
  — Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• At school, in the 1980s, Moss and his classmates participated in rapture drills, akin to earthquake or fire drills.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Just three years later, the Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the highway and helped settle the matter.
  — Benjamin Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• The epicenter of the earthquake was determined to be near Center Street and Railroad Avenue.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2023
• Victims of the earthquake have been mostly killed outdoors by falling rocks or landslides.
  — Wayne Chang, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• Troops have also begun clearing roads and mountain trails that were blocked by landslides triggered by the earthquake.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• This haven, along with most of San Francisco, would eventually be destroyed by the great earthquake of 1906.
  — Jasper Lo, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• Large fires broke out in Wajima overnight, destroying homes that had not already been hit by the initial earthquake.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The family spends the day at an apartment, but spends the night at a tent settlement because his children are still traumatized by the earthquake.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Earth’s crust has multiple tectonic plates that can rub up against each other and cause earthquakes.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• And last week, earthquake activity started kicking up in a big way.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024