noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a devastating flood/fire/earthquake etc
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The country is still recovering from last year's devastating floods.
a flood/earthquake/cyclone etc victim
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Earthquake victims were living in tents in the city's parks.
an earthquake zone (= where earthquakes are quite likely to happen )
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It’s not advisable to build nuclear reactors in an earthquake zone.
be destroyed by fire/a bomb/earthquake etc
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The building was destroyed by fire in 2004.
Sichuan Earthquake, the
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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In the country's last big earthquake , in 1986, the brunt was born by old buildings in San Salvador.
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They had survived what was, at least, a Pretty Big Onethe largest earthquake to strike northern California in eighty-three years.
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In 1925, Santa Barbara broke apart in a big earthquake and the city got a second chance.
great
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Downbuckling is marked by an offshore trench. Great earthquakes occur adjacent to the inclined contact between the two plates.
large
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Meanwhile, large earthquakes have occurred in Landers and Los Angeles.
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In 1928 and 1931, two large earthquakes in New Zealand produced strong traces on Seismographs throughout the world.
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Michael said it might help warn of a large impending earthquake by detecting foreshocks.
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They had survived what was, at least, a Pretty Big Onethe largest earthquake to strike northern California in eighty-three years.
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They are among the many victims of a series of large earthquakes that began slamming the Assisi-Foligno area on Sept. 26.
major
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More tremors hit Cairo More earth tremors have hit Cairo impeding the relief effort following the major earthquake .
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The greatest impact would occur with a major earthquake along the full Hayward Fault.
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Drawing on experience, the city is bracing for a major earthquake within the next 25 years.
northridge
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They withdrew in the wake of the January 1994 Northridge earthquake , which caused $ 8 billion worth of insured residential losses.
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The availability crisis developed after the January 1994 Northridge earthquake , which inflicted more than $ 8 billion in insured residential losses.
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Yet the Northridge earthquake was relatively small.
powerful
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Two powerful earthquakes , on Jan. 13 and Feb. 13, killed at least 1,246 people and injured another 8,000.
small
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In the silence the noise sounded like a small earthquake but he paid no attention to it.
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Unfortunately, foreshocks are just like any other small earthquake .
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Since then, the region has experienced a rash of smaller earthquakes .
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Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost.
■ NOUN
coverage
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Wilson signed a bill easing the earthquake coverage requirements.
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California law requires companies that issue homeowners policies to offer earthquake coverage as well.
insurance
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The expense of earthquake insurance and the high cost of deductibles are blamed for the low numbers of people carrying quake insurance.
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He believed he had earthquake insurance , but wasn't sure.
magnitude
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One of the city's best known landmarks, the Space Needle, was built to handle a 9.1 magnitude earthquake .
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A 5.4-\#magnitude earthquake hits southern Oregon, killing a motorist whose pickup was hit by falling rock.
■ VERB
cause
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He claimed that the site was geologically unsound and any stress caused by a shift in water levels could cause an earthquake .
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This year, two tectonic plates are shifting in a fashion that could cause economic earthquakes .
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A torn heart also causes earthquakes .
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This catastrophe - probably caused by an earthquake and explosion of gases - may be the reason.
destroy
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In 1741-7 a new church was built but it was destroyed by earthquake in 1748.
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They discover that the marker commemorating the shoot-out was destroyed by an earthquake in 1983.
devastate
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The Yaruba is sent from Texas to San Fernando with a supply of drinking water for the port, devastated by earthquake .
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Several decades later, San Franciscan George Lawrence took amazing overhead shots of his city after the devastating 1906 earthquake .
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At the time the city was devastated by a huge earthquake in 1923, the population of Tokyo was in excess of 3.5 million.
shake
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On 4 March 1977, Bucharest was shaken by a severe earthquake .
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San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake which, together with the fire that followed, almost completely destroyed the city.
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There was a terrifying rumbling noise and the stairs shook as though a minor earthquake had passed beneath the house.
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The building shook like an earthquake .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a violent storm/earthquake/explosion etc
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According to these learned fellows, the universe began with a violent explosion.
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During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin.
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Passing beneath it, Crevecoeur was reminded of a violent storm of hail beating upon his head.
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The second is part of the river Indus, which was diverted after a violent earthquake in 1819.
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The slaves gathered on August 30, 1800, but disbanded because a violent storm and flood made military operations impossible.
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This caused a violent explosion resulting in extensive damage.
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Travelling home one night in a violent storm, Polly was struck by lightning and had to be destroyed.
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Within minutes the brown patch of sky enveloped me, as a violent storm swept across the dunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kobe was devastated by the 1995 earthquake .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A car crash, an earthquake , a burning factory are much better.
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I mean, it was more than an earthquake .
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The earthquake of October 1989 reminded San Franciscans of the awesome power of the thing.
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The 1989 earthquake rendered them dangerous, and the structure came down in 1991.
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There was a terrifying rumbling noise and the stairs shook as though a minor earthquake had passed beneath the house.
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They had survived what was, at least, a Pretty Big Onethe largest earthquake to strike northern California in eighty-three years.
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This catastrophe - probably caused by an earthquake and explosion of gases - may be the reason.