How to Use earthquake in a Sentence

earthquake

noun

• The drought of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault will not last.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• It’s got the tallest peaks, the biggest earthquakes and the largest forest.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
• Thus, a 25% up move ought to be seen as the same kind of earthquake as a 20% down move.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Almost all of Japan felt the rumbles of the earthquake.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• In light of the recent the earthquake, how is the Sabah team looking ahead?
  — Scott Bay, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2023
• The first earthquake occurred at a depth of about nine miles.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Watch Stewart discuss the earthquake and eclipse in the video above.
  — EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
• These aren’t the first earthquakes to shake the area recently.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• Fans began to throw the toys at the 4:17 mark in the game to signal the time of day that the first earthquake struck the region on Feb. 6.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• Once an earthquake ends, the software will present a guide with smart next steps.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• The earthquake occurred at a depth of roughly four miles, the USGA said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• The first earthquake hit at around 4:15 a.m. local time.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Around the time of the earthquake, the statue may have been placed in the sewer, experts believe.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2024
• Damaged by an earthquake in 1842, the palace is now a ruin.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 24 July 2022
• Some residents told The New York Times the crash shook their homes and felt like an earthquake.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
• It’s believed the oarfish were sent from the palace toward the surface to warn people of earthquakes.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
• In the last act, the vitrines tilt every which way, as if after an earthquake.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The earthquake did not trigger a tsunami, and no one died as a result.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The strength of a supershear earthquake comes from the speed of that rupture.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• The deaths were due to the earthquake and floods; zero deaths were due to radiation.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• The office was the last on a list of district buildings that needed to be made earthquake-safe.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2022
• After the 1985 earthquake, the Centro was all but abandoned.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• An earthquake this week left at least 65 people dead there.
  — Karina Tsui, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• These are films about people whose lives are about as stable as a house of cards in an earthquake.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2022
• The earthquake, which killed at least 2,901 people, was the worst to hit Morocco in more than a hundred years.
  — Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• When the stress is too much and the system has to jerk into a new position, the jerk triggers an earthquake.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
• In preparation for the earthquake to come, here’s a look back at a few of the singer’s groundbreaking moments.
  — Natachi Onwuamaegbu, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• When the earthquake struck, the ship was sent to Iskenderun’s port so that it could be repurposed for survivors.
  — Nimet Kirac Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The next checkpoint is across the Tilikum Crossing Bridge, a wide, graceful expanse that is one of the more earthquake-safe bridges in the city.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
• Under her bill, AB 303, new ones also would be prohibited in the state’s coastal zone, on earthquake faults, prime farmland, wetlands, hazardous waste sites, and in very high fire hazard severity zones on Cal Fire maps.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025