Synonym: quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, vibrate. Similar words: earthquake, take the cake, make a mistake, quay, quash, quasi, squaw, quaff. Meaning: [kweɪk] n. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity. v. 1. shake with fast, tremulous movements 2. shake with seismic vibrations.
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121. That reactor, Unit 4, had been shut down before the quake for maintenance.
122. According to reports, the earthquake's epicenter was located in the Banda Sea, Indonesia, Ambon, about 510 km southwest. Quake of 5.1 magnitude.
123. The boy began to quake with dread ... this was no ordinary lecture for being bad!
124. The unusually high magnitude of Tuesday's quake for this region is part of the reason it has likely caused enormous damage to Haiti.sentencedict .com
125. In a high-rise building, expect the fire alarms and sprinklers to go off during a quake.
126. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 and was located in the Celebes Sea 175 miles (282 kilometers) southeast of Jolo Sulu Archipelago and 730 miles (1175 kilometers) south of Manila.
127. Amateur video - seconds after the quake that crippled the Haitian capital.
128. During the "window" period of 72 hours after the quake for relief operations, over 100,000 PLAs, armed policemen, firefighters, and reservists were quickly mobilized to take part in relief operations.
129. Some 1300 rescue and relief troops arrived at Wenchuan County, the epicenter of Monday's major quake with military doctors and soldiers searching for survivors and treating the injured.
130. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, meanwhile, says the earth's axis has also shifted 25 cm as a result of the quake in Japan, according to a report released by Reuters.
131. A sea quake that damaged the dolphins'eardrums is one possibility, officials say.
132. The quake quality of housing construction, and concerns arising from all public and the construction process jerry-building , buildings, public life has become anger.
133. Not the slightest ill omen prior to the quake, I felt myself sitting on a powder magazine and the ground is going to break up at any possible time.
134. A clock tower in the town center had stopped at 2:27, the time the quake hit.
135. The quake with a magnitude of six-point-five was felt throughout the capital, Athens.
136. There are a few Quake Catchers in the Central Asian nations Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- places where "it would be pretty difficult to install a [traditional] seismometer."
137. On May 12, 2009, China marked the first anniversary of the quake with a moment of silence as people across the nation remembered the dead.
138. There is no report of injury after the quake which hit 5.2 on the richter scale.
139. The deep-water quake sent a surge of tsunami waves pealing across the Pacific, prompting evacuations from Hawaii to Japan.
140. Another man from Temuco, around 200 miles from the epicentre, told local television: "Never in my life have I experienced a quake like this, it's like the end of the world."
141. 'The earthquake in Sichuan sounded the warning bell for us, ' said Luo Chongmin, director of the education bureau in neighboring Yunnan province, which escaped major quake damage.
142. Researchers from several universities in the United States also say the February 27th quake was so powerful it moved the capital of Santiago about 27 centimeters to the west-southwest.
143. The words Mr Wang said are just a quake for me.
144. Dr Gledhill said there had been a series of strong quakes on the South Island's West Coast for some years, but this was the largest quake for decades.
145. Distress turns to anger as residents of one town blame cost-cutting and poor workmanship for the collapse of several buildings in the quake.
146. It seems that NASA is already floating a trial balloon insinuating that the Chile quake was so large that it will, by itself, begin a wave of larger and more frequent quakes.
147. My soul is startled, fixing the eyes on looking to that eye- catching red ray, immediately my whole body has big quake with hot tears filling the eyes.
148. Speaking to a local television station in Temuco, one witness said: "Never in my life have I experienced a quake like this, it's like the end of the world."
149. While there is no reliable global tally of unsafe schools in quake zones, regional snapshots are chillingly clear.
150. Jacky Cheung has been seen in many occasions dressed in black and wearing a black wristlet in memory of the quake victims.