earthquakes
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It also follows devastating earthquakes in Colombia and Venezuela earlier this year.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“You live in Florida, you worry about hurricanes. You live in California, you worry about earthquakes, mudslides,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The park service said earthquakes during the 2018 Kīlauea volcano eruption and summit collapse had damaged the cliffs near the arch.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nobody knows where the Shakespeare nickname came from, but city officials designated the bridge as L.A.’s Historic-Cultural Monument No. 126 in 1974 and retrofitted it in the 1990s to better withstand earthquakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Dr. Timothy Morales,” Mr. Rowan read, “Department of Seismology, University of Washington. You study earthquakes? Well, you came to the right place today.”
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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