Words similar to earthquake

Example sentences for: earthquake

How can you use “earthquake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(The Wall Street Journal puts the earthquake atop its "Worldwide" box.)
What the CIA detected, it turns out, was an earthquake.
For weeks after the Kobe earthquake in 1995, mounds of garbage lay uncollected despite the quick resumption of other basic services.
But when someone dies of trauma, as most earthquake victims did, the decomposition process is harmless, if disgusting.
When it was built, it had 15 tiers, but the top came tumbling down in a Ming-era earthquake.