quake
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Nearly 1,100 people reported feeling Sunday’s quake, according to the USGS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The quake comes after a magnitude-5.0 earthquake woke residents in Granada shortly after 1:00 am on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Alfonso Malpica said he felt his ground floor flat in Granada shaking, telling El País newspaper that the quake was "stronger than the ones that happen from time to time, the ones we're used to".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Many Flores residents have traumatic memories of another 7.7-magnitude quake that hit the island in 1992, triggering a tsunami and killing about 2,500.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Several tons of sinewy, scaly-black dragon hit the ground with a thud that Harry could have sworn made the trees behind him quake.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
In my new study, I used seismic stations in Antarctica itself to look for signs of these quakes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
But, shortly after 6 p.m. on June 24, the two powerful quakes struck just 39 seconds apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The devastation comes less than two months after powerful twin quakes rattled neighboring Venezuela, killing more than 6,300 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The quake comes less than two months after twin quakes devastated the north of neighbouring Venezuela, killing more than 6,100 people.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It felt like little quakes of anxiety and excitement were vibrating under his skin, and Wylan seated next to him drumming frenetically on his kneecaps wasn’t helping him settle.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
He was so influential that two presidents, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, quaked under fear of incurring McCarthy's wrath.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
But on board, the 12-year-old girl quaked with fear.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Neither Pinterest nor the patriarchy quaked in its boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
After Floyd’s death, and with the everyday rhythms of life beaten back for months by the pandemic, the streets of north Minneapolis quaked.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2020
Atop her shoulders, the domovoi quaked and hissed.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
But while Wembanyama is having the time of his life, every other team in the league is quaking in its boots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Troubles, however, are also quaking on the offensive side of America’s nuclear-weapons enterprise—specifically, the program to build a new land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel, to replace the 400 current ICBMs, known as Minuteman IIIs.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2025
The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
Treinen was hardly quaking in his cleats, despite the fine mess he had gotten himself into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024
My stomach answers first, quaking with nausea, but I breathe through it.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing quake
Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 5
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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Lesson 24
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