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Example sentences for: earthquake

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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."
The WP story documents how shoddy building standards exacerbated the effects of the earthquake.
Most other historic buildings around the square succumbed to the devastating earthquake of 1755 (see page 18).
And the earthquake of 1999 would be remembered as a beginning, not only as a tragedy."
Newspapers everywhere led on Tuesday's ruinous Turkish earthquake, where the latest tallies show more than 6,300 dead and at least 20,000 injured.