quake

The centre of the quake hit Baqên County in the Nagqu region as on Thursday night, Xinhua reported, citing the local emergency management bureau.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

While no deaths have been reported from the quake, about 30 people have been treated for minor injuries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Pedro Tercero remembered him as an angry giant with a snakeskin whip and a silver cane, at whose step the tenants trembled and whose thunderous voice and feudal arrogance made all of nature quake.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

First discovered in the northern hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the sea.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Worshipers gather for a recent Sunday Mass at the St. Bartholomew the Apostle Church, which lost more than 200 parishioners in the quakes.

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

When the reporter approached him and asked what he thought of the quakes and the ash and the steam issuing from the new crater, the logger didn’t hesitate.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

Connors once bent strings wildly, as if the entire guitar quaked beneath his blues.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

Fred shouted as the castle quaked again, and Harry sprinted by, elated and terrified in equal measure.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024

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

I ignore him, get up from my chair, and address Nico as calmly as I can, even though my insides are quaking.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan