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Example sentences for: earthquake

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Tuscania is a quiet little fortified town, recovering now from an earthquake in 1971 that luckily did not harm its two Romanesque churches on the eastern outskirts (check with the tourist office on Piazza Basile for erratic hours).
The more devout Californians were convinced God was punishing San Francisco for its gold lust and sinfulness when an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter Scale, struck the city at 5:13am on 18 April 1906.
Taiwan produces 12 percent of the world's D-RAM chips, and the earthquake is expected to interrupt production for several weeks, the paper said.
A prized possession is the Lisbon Panorama, a 36 m- (118 ft-) long tile composition of Lisbon’s riverside as it looked before the 1755 earthquake.
He had learned the importance of reputation to private sector fund-raising after the Federal Emergency Management Agency cited his program before Congress for excellence in cases stemming from the 1994 Northridge earthquake.