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Example sentences for: earthquakes

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According to Plato this rich, happy land, lying somewhere to the west of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean, was destroyed by earthquakes and tidal waves nearly 12,000 years ago.
On All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1755, as crowds packed the churches to honor the dead, Lisbon and parts of Portugal all the way to the Algarve were devastated by one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded.
The face of Naples has been made and remade by its many earthquakes, permitting — imposing — transitions from Gothic to Renaissance and Baroque.
Subsequent floods and earthquakes left the parched Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley as a protective crust, preserving the skeletons of the dinosaurs.
One of the things I always find so wonderful about life in New York is how oblivious we tend to be to things like the possibility of natural disasters, but the encephalitis thing made me happy to be leaving town for Los Angeles, where there are only earthquakes to worry about.