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Example sentences for: earthquake

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Yesterday, the Turkish authorities criticized the poor quality of many of the buildings that have gone up in the last few years in the area affected by the earthquake, a region that has experienced heavy industrial development.
Hope for more earthquake survivors is fading in Taiwan.
Most exciting of its varied collections is a display of photographs showing island scenes from before the devastating 1956 earthquake — the last major one to strike the island.
Whether this will ever happen remains to be seen, but perhaps the aid offered by Greece to Turkey after 1999’s devastating earthquake is a sign that the animosity between these two traditional enemies is beginning to diminish.
It has the same logic as the earthquake at the end of Altman's Short Cuts , except there it was short and brutal and here it's a full-scale, surreal black-comedy routine.