I. verb
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A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous, quaking waste.
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It left us quaking in our own home.
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It used to be that Florence quaked when the bikers came over the hill near the edge of town.
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She pounded the quaking lid with her fists.
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She shivered, remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake .
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The ground quaked as they walked on it.
II. noun
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A quake in the Tehachapi-Bakersfield area 50 miles north of Los Angeles registers 7.7.
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A 6.3-magnitude quake in Long Beach, Calif., kills 115 people.
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In California's San Fernando Valley, a 6.5-magnitude quake leaves 65 people dead.-March 27, 1964.
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Living in the rift caused by such a foundation quake is his ambition for your life.
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Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.
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Such local bodies are especially important because, by the time foreign aid arrives, most quake victims will have died.
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The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake .
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The fact that there was not more damage or loss of life was likely due to the nature of the quake .