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Example sentences for: quakes

How can you use “quakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Relief teams complain that the Turkish government is encouraging them to leave, even though a 4-year-old was rescued from the rubble yesterday and survivors have been uncovered in ruins two weeks after previous quakes.
(Click here for a good explanation of the Richter scale and here for the effects of various quakes.)
In fact, seismologists have a rough method for predicting the number of aftershocks on a given day: It declines in inverse proportion to the time since the mainshock (i.e., day four has one-fourth the number of quakes as day one).
In the three hours following Taiwan's mainshock, for example, there were only seven quakes that would have done more than lightly rattle dishes.
Several priceless frescoes were severely damaged or destroyed, notably invaluable works by Cimabue (1226–1337) featured on a portion of the Upper Church’s vaulted ceiling, which plunged to the floor during the quakes.