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Simple sentences
Tom didn't feel the earthquake.
After the earthquake, many people decided to sleep outside in tents.
In the near future, we may have a big earthquake in Japan.
Will there be an earthquake in the near future?
It is said that there will be a big earthquake in the near future.
The house collapsed in an earthquake.
The radio warned us of the coming earthquake and we started gathering our things.
An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Tokyo.
They were symptoms of the earthquake.
It was the greatest earthquake on record.
The earthquake brought about disaster.
The earthquake was a terrible experience.
The earthquake smashed everything.
The earthquake was the biggest one that we had ever experienced.
Only two people survived the earthquake.
The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.
Let us students contribute to the welfare of the victims of the earthquake; even loose change will go a long way.
Just as he was going out, there was a great earthquake.
A fire broke out after the earthquake.
The whole village was laid flat by the earthquake.
The earthquake caused widespread damage.
The earthquake shook the houses.
When the big earthquake occurred, I was just ten.
Only part of the building has been destroyed by the earthquake.
Movie subtitles
Okay, but you're right about this, actually, it has a lot of dry goods on it, it actually could be useful for my earthquake kit, - so I will keep this.
May I ask what earthquake caused your brain to work at last?
We want you to return the money. But this is the nature of providence, as an earthquake or a thunderbolt. -Or a baby.
Never mind the Chinese earthquake.
Fire, earthquake, theft, public liability, group insurance industrial stuff and so on, right down the line.
The next thing you'll tell me I need earthquake insurance and lightning insurance and hail insurance.
Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, in thunder and in earthquake like a Jove, that if requiring fail, he will compel.
Untouched by the earthquake.
War, earthquake, winds, fi re, famine, the plague.
There'll be an earthquake, I know it.
Doc, do you remember about that earthquake bomb idea of mine?
The shockwaves would be tremendous, a real earthquake.
A whale can jump up like an earthquake. and come down on you like a mountain that's somehow put to sea.
There is an earthquake right where Shiraishi lives.
An earthquake wouldn't wake her.
I thought there was an earthquake.
What's happening? An earthquake?
Tomorrow I'll buy you an earthquake.
More like someone giving birth to an earthquake.
Fire, earthquake, theft, public liability, group insurance. industrial stuff and so on, right down the line.
The next thing you'll tell me I need. earthquake insurance and lightning insurance and hail insurance.
When something smells bad, believe me, it's in the air like an earthquake.
I even learnt that an earthquake did hit Superstition.
That earthquake changed things, too.
It's an earthquake.
Say, isn't he the one who designed that earthquake-proof house. that collapsed when a truck went by?
War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague.
The earthquake we just felt. Where was its epicenter?
We've already had our earthquake. What else could possibly happen?
This person died in the 1855 earthquake.
Thought we'd found an earthquake.
Take any fire,.any earthquake, any major disaster,.then wonder.
News and current affairs
Consider the question of predicting events like the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed more than 200,000 people.
Or people think about North Korea's nuclear program, some terrorist incident, or the humanitarian consequences of the latest earthquake or tsunami.
No catastrophic earthquake or tsunami has destroyed southern Europe's productive capacity.
At Fukushima, the reactors withstood a magnitude 9.0 earthquake - far more powerful than they were designed to tolerate.
In the US, most people still do not have flood or earthquake insurance.
In California, one of the world's most unstable geological regions, only one in six homeowners buys earthquake insurance.
That is what happened to the parents who openly expressed their anger about the ill-constructed school buildings that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, killing their children.
In Japan, the fiscal stimulus from post-earthquake reconstruction will be phased out, while a new consumption tax will be phased in by 2014.
In Japan, the post-earthquake recovery will fizzle out as weak governments fail to implement structural reforms.
If it does, the result will be an earthquake.
Devastated four years ago by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Japan's automobile production was cut by nearly half.
HONG KONG - In March 2011, the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan halted production of key components on which many global supply chains depend.
MELBOURNE - All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti.
Why do people give generously to earthquake victims, but not to prevent the much larger number of deaths brought about by extreme poverty, insufficient food, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and the absence of even the most basic health care?
NEW HAVEN - The devastation - both human and physical - from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is unfathomable.
That happened in the aftermath of the Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake in 1995, and it will happen this time as well.
The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low magnitude of Japan's direct impact on the broader global economy.
According to the minutes, Enzo Boschi, President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, was asked if they were precursors to an earthquake resembling the one in 1703.
The basis of the charges is not that they didn't predict the earthquake.
In February 2011, almost 200 people died when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand.
The accident at Fukushima resulted from an earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented severity.
Shanghai - Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.
And when one looks more closely at how Chinese responded, both to the unrest in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake, one sees tangible signs that the Chinese are embracing a greater degree of free speech.
STANFORD - The earthquake- and tsunami-related problems at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant have inspired endless commentary and speculation.
Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau's eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault.
In 2008, for example, following the Sichuan earthquake, thousands of children died when their shoddily built schools collapsed.