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
• Some residents told The New York Times the crash shook their homes and felt like an earthquake.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
• In the last act, the vitrines tilt every which way, as if after an earthquake.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The strength of a supershear earthquake comes from the speed of that rupture.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 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
• 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
• When the earthquake struck, the ship was sent to Iskenderun’s port so that it could be repurposed for survivors.
  — Nimet Kirac Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The next checkpoint is across the Tilikum Crossing Bridge, a wide, graceful expanse that is one of the more earthquake-safe bridges in the city.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
• Each earthquake occurred within five miles of the other one.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• In the midst of that climactic battle, an earthquake hits the Pride Lands and a mountain shatters.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
• Most San Diegans have been told to drop, cover and hold, but there’s much more to know about earthquake safety.
  — Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
• As the anniversary of the earthquake approached, Ibrahim and Pinar were still healing, slowly.
  — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• That change in stress causes earthquakes over time, Sonder said.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• The earthquake had an epicenter about 5 miles northeast of Alum Rock.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
• As Stephen Nesbitt wrote in a beautiful feature yesterday, Sasaki’s hometown was largely wiped away by the infamous Tohoku earthquake.
  — Chris Branch, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
• So nearly erotic, these encounters, the mood too easily broken by an alteration in tone or volume, by a joke at the wrong time or a sudden shifting in the seats, which, in this environment, would register almost as an earthquake.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 31 Jan 2025