How to Use earthquake in a Sentence

earthquake

noun

• The drought of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault will not last.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• It’s got the tallest peaks, the biggest earthquakes and the largest forest.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
• Thus, a 25% up move ought to be seen as the same kind of earthquake as a 20% down move.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Almost all of Japan felt the rumbles of the earthquake.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• In light of the recent the earthquake, how is the Sabah team looking ahead?
  — Scott Bay, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2023
• The first earthquake occurred at a depth of about nine miles.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Watch Stewart discuss the earthquake and eclipse in the video above.
  — EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
• These aren’t the first earthquakes to shake the area recently.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• Fans began to throw the toys at the 4:17 mark in the game to signal the time of day that the first earthquake struck the region on Feb. 6.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• Once an earthquake ends, the software will present a guide with smart next steps.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• The earthquake occurred at a depth of roughly four miles, the USGA said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• The first earthquake hit at around 4:15 a.m. local time.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Around the time of the earthquake, the statue may have been placed in the sewer, experts believe.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2024
• Damaged by an earthquake in 1842, the palace is now a ruin.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 24 July 2022
• Some residents told The New York Times the crash shook their homes and felt like an earthquake.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
• That’s bad news for the companies who built their brands on the shaky ground the earthquake of Covid-19 left behind.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 July 2022
• It’s believed the oarfish were sent from the palace toward the surface to warn people of earthquakes.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
• In the last act, the vitrines tilt every which way, as if after an earthquake.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The earthquake did not trigger a tsunami, and no one died as a result.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The strength of a supershear earthquake comes from the speed of that rupture.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• The deaths were due to the earthquake and floods; zero deaths were due to radiation.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• The office was the last on a list of district buildings that needed to be made earthquake-safe.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2022
• After the 1985 earthquake, the Centro was all but abandoned.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• An earthquake this week left at least 65 people dead there.
  — Karina Tsui, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• These are films about people whose lives are about as stable as a house of cards in an earthquake.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2022
• Some scholars believe the move was caused by an earthquake 3,000 years ago.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 15 June 2022
• The earthquake, which killed at least 2,901 people, was the worst to hit Morocco in more than a hundred years.
  — Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• When the stress is too much and the system has to jerk into a new position, the jerk triggers an earthquake.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
• The death toll from the devastating earthquake that rocked Burma and Thailand on Friday has risen sharply to more than 1,650 victims.
  — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
• Images in the wake of the earthquake show the widespread devastation, as the full scope of the disaster is still coming into focus.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2025