Collocations for "earthquake"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "earthquake" in context.
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earthquake
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [huge, devastating, crushing] earthquake
- an earthquake in [Turkey]
- an earthquake has struck [Nepal]
- the earthquake registered [5.5] (on the Richter scale)
- a magnitude- [3] earthquake
- the earthquake claimed [hundreds, thousands] of lives
- the earthquake ripped through the [towns, valleys, hills, city]
- the earthquake lasted [five] minutes
- the aftershock of an earthquake
- [destroyed, ruined, demolished] by the earthquake
- buildings [shook, quivered, collapsed] during the earthquake
- [could not, was not able to] withstand the earthquake
- was in the (direct) [path, line] of the earthquake
- [structures, buildings] resistant to earthquakes
- an earthquake of enormous [force, magnitude]
- [victims, survivors] of the earthquake
- the [location, force, epicenter, impact] of the earthquake
- all buildings must (now) be earthquake- [proof, resistant]
- has caused a [political, social] earthquake
- send in, offer, collect] earthquake relief
- [look, search] for earthquake survivors
'earthquake' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):