How to Use earthquake in a Sentence

earthquake

noun

• The first earthquake occurred at a depth of about nine miles.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• In some cases, an earthquake could even relax stress on a nearby fault.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The first earthquake hit at around 4:15 a.m. local time.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• The family, like thousands of others, was likely asleep in their homes when the first earthquake struck overnight.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• The difference in the energy released from an earthquake is even larger.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Some residents told The New York Times the crash shook their homes and felt like an earthquake.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
• People should also avoid going outside during an earthquake.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
• The amount of time people are able to survive after an earthquake varies significantly.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• An earthquake was also felt in Lebanon, Lebanese authorities said.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• According to the brand, the exterior walls are earthquake and wind-resistant, and the entire home can be set up in 10 minutes.
  — Toni Sutton, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
• The Buffalo area experienced an earthquake this morning.
  — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2023
• Twitter’s moment of birth, the moment that its founder realized its benefit, was during a minor earthquake in San Francisco.
  — Miles Bryan, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024
• An earthquake as devastating as the one that hit Turkey and Syria this month has been forecast to hit Southern California for decades.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• In the new analysis, which involved measurements of properties of earthquake waves traveling deep underground, the researchers saw evidence for something cold and dense stuck in that mantle blob gap.
  — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Around the time of the earthquake, the statue may have been placed in the sewer, experts believe.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2024
• In the last act, the vitrines tilt every which way, as if after an earthquake.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• After the 1985 earthquake, the Centro was all but abandoned.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Each earthquake occurred within five miles of the other one.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024