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Earthquake in sentence

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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the outpouring of international aid was phenomenal.
From that perspective, Haitians continue to die from the earthquake even today.
Now, recent geological research has shown that the Temple of Apollo, where the most famous oracle sat, was actually built over two earthquake faults.
This is a 3D model of Durbar Square in Kathmandu, before the earthquake that occurred last April ... and this is after.
(Applause and cheers) At Sarah Lawrence College, I worked with artists to respond to Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake; I discovered the impact of poetry and the ability to not just articulate our feelings, but to get us to work towards changing things and doing something about it, when a friend, Maytha Alhassen, invited me to Palestine ... PA: We were a delegation of artists and organizers, and we immersed ourselves in Palestinian culture, music, their stories.
This large vase, he claimed, could tell them whenever an earthquake occurred in their kingdom– including the direction they should send aid.
And in unstable zones, the intensifying pressure may ultimately trigger an earthquake.
At the scale of millennia, this allows us to make predictions about when highly active faults, like the San Andreas, are overdue for a massive earthquake.
In 2011, just before an earthquake struck the east coast of Japan, nearby researchers recorded surprisingly high concentrations of the radioactive isotope pair: radon and thoron.
As stress builds up in the crust right before an earthquake, microfractures allow these gases to escape to the surface.
They reported that there was an 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, which triggered the massive tsunami.
It turned out LA had just suffered a major earthquake which resulted in citywide blackouts.
So I went to Fukushima, Japan on the sixth anniversary of the nuclear reactor disaster there that followed the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
When I was there, I learned about the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, which was even closer to the epicenter of that earthquake than the infamous Fukushima Daiichi that we all know about.
An earthquake, for example, can destroy the infrastructure needed to produce important commodities such as oil.
We want to have a community where you can upload ideas, and those ideas can be tested in an earthquake, in flood, in all sorts of austere environments.
Yet, I continued to pursue my dream of working all over the world, and was even appointed as a disability focal point for UNICEF in Haiti, where I served for two years after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Last May, China in the Sichuan province had a terrible earthquake, 7.9 magnitude, massive destruction in a wide area, as the Richter Scale has it.
And the earthquake was reported as it was happening.
Even the government learned of the earthquake from their own citizens, rather than from the Xinhua News Agency.
How could we have buildings that are low cost and affordable for people who work in a first job, assembling something like an iPhone, but make those buildings energy efficient, and make sure that they are safe, so they don't fall down in an earthquake or a hurricane.
Hand sanitizers work less like a crowbar, and more like an earthquake.
The overall effect is like removing all of the nails and mortar from a house and then hitting it with an earthquake.
So, you're on vacation at a nice beach, and word comes through that there's been a massive earthquake and that there is a tsunami advancing on the beach.
So, for example, a couple of days after the disaster in Haiti, we had an earthquake map that showed before and after pictures from the sky.
Fortunately, just after the earthquake, GeoEye, a commercial company, released satellite imagery with a license, which allowed the open-source community to use it.
This is January, in time lapse, of people editing ... that's the earthquake.
After the earthquake, immediately, people all over the world, mappers who wanted to help, and could, looked at that imagery, built the map, quickly building it up.
Most recently, we've been tragically reminded of the destructive power of nature itself with the recent earthquake in Haiti.
That's a Haiti earthquake every eight days.
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