quake

The quake was registered as occurring at a depth of just 12km.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The quake was registered at a shallow depth of 12 kilometers, meaning its impact was likely to be more severe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The quake destroyed schools, hospitals and scores of residential buildings across several towns and cities.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nearly 1,100 people reported feeling Sunday’s quake, according to the USGS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

In 1995, as you will remember, the city of Kobe, three hundred miles to the west, was struck by a magnitude 7.2 quake, which killed 6,394 people.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

A further 60 schools were converted into shelters for thousands of people left homeless by the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

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 most notorious such quakes ever to hit the United States were a series of three in New Madrid, Missouri, in the winter of 1811-12.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

He has never been to Kyle Field, which does quake even if it quaked less last Saturday.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022

The car screamed, quaked, stopped and smoked yet somehow started again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

Regardless, the guards’ faces were stern and hard, and she quaked inside.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

“What is it?” she said, her voice quaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The overall sound is highly dramatic, with massed voices, quaking beats, horses whinnying in the distance, and percussion that evokes the threat of a rattlesnake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

Even when Keenan scored, there was a television match official check that would have had every Lions fan quaking in their boots.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

‘Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,’ said Gimli.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien