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Example sentences for: earthquake

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The square (also called by its former name Terreiro do Paço), wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by an assassin’s bullets there in 1908, and it was the site of one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
Previous years' kanji have not been much cheerier: In 1995 "earthquake" took the honors; in 1996 a mass food poisoning scandal led to the victory of "food"; and 1997 was represented by "bankruptcy."
Extensively damaged during the 1934 earthquake, it was later reconstructed.
The Hector Mine earthquake, named for a mineral mine near the epicenter, was three times more powerful than the 6.7-magnitude quake that killed 57 people in L.A. in 1994.
If this city’s Durbar Square seems less crowded than those in Patan and Kathmandu, it’s because it was most affected by the 1934 earthquake.