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Earthquake in sentence

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Or do you focus on your everyday life and let the earthquake every eight days continue to happen?
Most of us worry about things we can't control, like war, terrorism, the tragic earthquake that just occurred in Haiti.
And Lise was widowed after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, left homeless without an income.
And it's been used most famously in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.
We did a bag for Haiti just a month after the earthquake to provide school meals for kids in Haiti.
I was in Istanbul when the earthquake hit in 1999.
I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against.
We've determined from the earthquake activity that you're seeing here that the top of that volcano is erupting, so we deploy the troops.
That the place where, during an earthquake in 1954, this marine terrace was lifted up out of the ocean very quickly, and it was lifted up about six to seven meters.
And that coral was growing happily in those shallow waters, until 1954, when the earthquake happened.
I learned about the Haiti earthquake by Skype.
My wife sent me a message, "Whoa, earthquake," and then disappeared for 25 minutes.
We have all heard about the tremendous human loss in the earthquake in Haiti, but we haven't heard enough about why all those lives were lost.
After all, it was the buildings, not the earthquake, that killed 220,000 people, that injured 330,000, that displaced 1.3 million people, that cut off food and water and supplies for an entire nation.
And after the quake, we started bringing in earthquake engineers to figure out why the buildings collapsed, to examine what was safe and what wasn't.
The proof of this came in Chile, almost a month later, when 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile.
The way at the bottom is a confined masonry building, where the walls are tied together, the building is symmetric, and it will stand up to an earthquake.
A group of 7 gold prospectors head into a mine that was recently opened back up after an earthquake.
Geologist realizes a big earthquake is coming but no one will listen.
May be spoilers so do not read if you do not want to Just like watching the TV news , everything is already happened, a great tsunami looms over a city bay and CUT , no more to see, Tokay suffers a large earthquake , did anyone see more than the 5 seconds I saw?
It also is funny how seismically active areas are shown to have massive destruction from a 6.5 magnitude earthquake.
The actors turn in competent performances, but nothing special (however, better than those in "Aftershock: Earthquake in New York").
This movie features a pretty decent FX sequence of an earthquake for 1936.
Volcano is set in Los Angeles where a minor earthquake has just hit, vacationing boss of the O.E.M. (the Offcie of Emergency Management) Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) decides to cut his holiday short & go in, once there he sees that everything is alright but then drives off to the epicentre of the quake where seven underground workers have been killed by a fire or intense heat of some kind.
It was frozen in the ice for over a million years or so, until it was released by an earthquake somewhere else in the world(yeah, right.
I loved the scene where she is complaining about not getting a dowry and I also loved the scene where both lived through the earthquake.
The earthquake in 1953 killed my great grandfather and the book and movie both portray the feeling of the era with great compassion.
It was a cultural earthquake the like of which filmmakers only dream of accomplishing.
One forgives banal plots and stupid unrealistic dialog in opera, but why waste Hayak, Don Sutherland, a beautiful rendition of LA in the 30s, a deus ex machina earthquake that conveniently kills the other woman, and all that beauty on this mediocre turkey where there isn't even any beautiful singing?
Even the earthquake was pretty poor.
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