Words similar to quake

Example sentences for: quake

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The Washington Post lead, dwarfed by the quake headline below it, carries yesterday's warning by Maryland officials and environmentalists that a fractured response to the drought by regional officials could impede effective conservation of water.
One FEMA inspector told GAO that some survey-damage reports after the Northridge quake included work that had been specifically rejected after the Loma Prieta quake five years earlier.
Turkey's president, vacationing in Istanbul, could not call to Ankara for four hours after the quake.
Surprisingly, the Taiwan government has lowered the estimated death toll from the quake since Friday, to just over 2,000, apparently because some victims were counted twice.
The initial quake wiped out about 5,000 buildings, but the great fire that followed destroyed most of the city.