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Example sentences for: earthquakes

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It has weathered moderate earthquakes with nary a crack or untoward ripple, and looks as fit for the eventual big one as it did 20 years ago.
But an Indian engineer skilled at protecting bridges from earthquakes does not.
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.
Hollywood's flood of natural disaster movies-- Volcano , Twister , Asteroid , The Flood, etc.--ebbed just in time for the real thing: earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan, a drought on the East Coast, Hurricane Floyd and its allied floods.
The LAT also says that the spate of recent earthquakes has nothing to do with geology (they happen with the same frequency as they always have) and everything to do with demographics and geography (more people live near fault lines).