Words similar to quake

Example sentences for: quake

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But the paper's off-lead is probably the bigger story: The earthquake hazard facing Southern California may only be half as great as scientists had been saying, and it's very unlikely that the region will ever experience that staple of Los Angeles small talk, the 8.0 quake, aka The Big One.
Despite the enormous casualties and continued neighborhood blackouts, much of the city was up and running the day after the quake, including major highways and the airport.
One story helpfully notes that the 7.6 quake was actually twice as powerful as the 7.4 quake which killed 16,000 in Turkey last month.
The paper points out that in 1997, a respected (though unnamed) journal singled out Izmit as most vulnerable to a quake.
But most aftershocks happen soon after the primary quake.