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Earthquake in sentence

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Here is a first prototype of our camera rat, which is a rat with a rat backpack with a camera that can go under rubble to detect for victims after earthquake and so on.
It's like a death of a relative, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, or an earthquake.
During the Haiti earthquake, a number of engineers and product managers spontaneously came together and stayed overnight to build a tool to allow earthquake victims to find their loved ones.
Then, on December 26th last year, just two months ago, that underwater earthquake triggered the tsunami.
I read about the recent earthquake in Chile and the tsunami that rippled across the entire Pacific Ocean.
During the recent earthquake, they were so well rooted that they could quickly assess within the community and with others, what were the short-term needs and what were the long-term needs.
I know that everything is connected, and the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of the earthquake.
We had the Japanese earthquake and the tsunami.
And the other big story of the year: the political crisis, the political earthquake in the Middle East.
And sometimes I have an emotional response to news, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
The catalyst for this change was the major earthquake that struck Haiti on the 12th of January in 2010.
The earthquake destroyed the capital of Port-au-Prince, claiming the lives of some 320,000 people, rendering homeless about 1.2 million people.
It was about two meters high, completely squashed by the violence of the earthquake.
Like the time I was in Sichuan Province and I was singing for kids in relocation schools in the earthquake disaster zone.
"Big sister Wong, can I sing you a song that my mom sang for me before she was swallowed in the earthquake?"
In each of these major disasters — the tsunami in 2004, 250,000 dead, the Kashmiri earthquake in Pakistan, 2005, 85,000 dead, the Haitian earthquake, about 300,000 dead, more recently the awful earthquake-tsunami combination which struck Japan and its nuclear industry — in all of these instances, we see partnerships between international actors, interagency, private-public working with security forces to respond to this kind of natural disaster.
Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an act of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.
People after the earthquake in New Zealand visited us in order to incorporate some of this public spiritedness around local growing into the heart of Christchurch.
In January, 2010, a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, third deadliest earthquake of all time, left one million people, 10 percent of the population, homeless.
The only institution with detailed knowledge of Haiti's floodplains had been leveled in the earthquake, leadership inside.
Two years ago, after having served four years in the United States Marine Corps and deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, I found myself in Port-au-Prince, leading a team of veterans and medical professionals in some of the hardest-hit areas of that city, three days after the earthquake.
To give an example of how we rely on the audience, on the 5th of September in Costa Rica, an earthquake hit.
Thirty seconds later, the first message went onto Twitter, and this was someone saying "temblor," which means earthquake.
So 60 seconds was how long it took for the physical earthquake to travel.
Thirty seconds later news of that earthquake had traveled all around the world, instantly.
Everyone in the world, hypothetically, had the potential to know that an earthquake was happening in Managua.
I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping.
We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down.
If an earthquake strikes tonight, I used to worry, what will happen to our house?
With the exception perhaps of a massive earthquake, we're protected from real awe.
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