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earthquake

noun as in tremor from inside the earth

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By beating incumbent Kevin de León for a City Council seat that stretches from downtown through Boyle Heights and up to Eagle Rock, the 34-year-old sustained the political earthquake she first unleashed in March, when she finished ahead of him and two Latino Assembly members in the primary.

As for future water recycling projects, Winter said she thinks Los Angeles should focus on developing various smaller-scale facilities to ensure redundancy, rather than planning to rely on a large centralized system that she argues would be vulnerable to failure due to an earthquake or other hazards.

“When colleagues first spotted this signal last year, it looked nothing like an earthquake. We called it an ‘unidentified seismic object’,” recalled Dr Stephen Hicks from UCL, one of the scientists involved.

From BBC

Eyewitnesses described the Israeli strike on the building said to have belonged to the Alloush family as an "earthquake".

From BBC

When New York City was rattled by an earthquake earlier this year, Hernández threw on a skintight jumpsuit and a cap with NYC on it to embody the trembler.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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