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No injuries were reported from that quake, possibly because there were fewer people in the streets at that hour, although damage was reported in some buildings.

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

"They haven't received aid yet because Nitung Village was isolated for nearly two days after the quake," he said, noting that efforts were underway to rush aid to the survivors.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

The quake had wrecked parts of downtown Anchorage and towns and villages across Alaska.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

Among Indonesia's history of deadly quakes is a devastating 9.1-magnitude tremor in 2004 that struck off the coast of Sumatra and triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 throughout the region, including about 170,000 in Indonesia.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

The quakes hit as La Guaira was marking the feast of San Juan, an annual celebration featuring the ritual beating of drums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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

Dissent got louder after the twin quakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, killing over 6,000 people and decimating hundreds of buildings.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

She stomps on the ground, and the room quakes.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

It was just past 6 p.m. on Saturday, and the leader board quaked with highbrow talent and highfalutin rankings.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022

The next step was to do the equations for the design of the De Laval nozzle, and privately I quaked at the thought of attempting them.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025

Seismologists in the region must have been alarmed by the quaking activity that occurred at Wednesday’s opening when Betts heaved all her might into Evillene’s “Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

He could feel Deedee quaking under his hand.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner