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Example sentences for: earthquakes

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Unfortunately all this was lost in a series of earthquakes in the early centuries of the first millennium and Ancient Alexandria now rests below the waters of today’s harbor.
In an editorial Monday, the Turkish Daily News said Turks are "thrilled to see the American president as their guest, especially at a time when we are going through some very hard days, having to cope with the national trauma of two successive major killer earthquakes and the never-ending hardships suffered by our masses because of economic crises."
Unfortunately, the basilica was the region’s one structure that suffered the most damage during the earthquakes of 1997, whose epicenter was located just outside of Assisi.
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.
A basilica was built on this spot in 1528, but what you see was rebuilt in the early 19th century after a series of earthquakes and fires.