Example sentences for: seismic

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

  • Ancient seismic activity forced the stratified rock towards the sky and the action of wind and frost have fashioned it into bizarre shapes.

  • Arranged in a descending spiral around it are other tanks representing the denizens of the Pacific Ocean’s seismic “ring of fire. ”

  • The oversight is not the result of an effort to avoid downbeat or offensive sides of Degas, but rather a failure to understand the seismic shift in French society caused by "l'affaire ." Photography and French nationalism were also linked in Degas' mind.

  • An aftershock is defined as a quake that occurs on or near the original fault (usually within 10 miles of the epicenter) and before the region's seismic activity has returned to normal.

  • a land of ruins," but recommended that just as the Turkish government uses the latest techniques to protect monuments such as the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from seismic turbulence, so should it "apply the same rigorous standards to its more mundane buildings for it is upon them and their inhabitants that its future depends."


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