Thesaurus results for EARTHQUAKES

earthquakes

noun

plural of earthquake

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a shaking of the earth the San Andreas Fault is notorious for its earthquakes

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a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order) the election of the socialist candidate caused a political earthquake that nearly led to a military coup

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Recent Examples of earthquakes Panamanian authorities had not attributed any deaths to the earthquakes. — Aris Mariota, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 David Ryder | Reuters The typical homeowners insurance policy excludes or limits coverage for damage from certain disasters, such as earthquakes, landslides and floods, according to insurance experts. — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 By 1926, Caltech was running the Seismo Lab with the Carnegie Institution, where seismologists like Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter would deepen our understanding of earthquakes. — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2026 Tests of nuclear bombs, such as those conducted in Nevada during the Cold War, have long been known to cause small, detectable earthquakes. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026 The country is also recovering from devastating back-to-back earthquakes in June that have so far killed over 6,000 people. — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

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For 13 years, the high-precision instrument had been bolted to a rocky outcrop in the hills of western Venezuela, quietly tracking the millimeter-scale movements of the Boconó fault, which was the likely source of the first of the two quakes.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
But the quakes also exposed a sense of solidarity, as neighbors were forced to rely on one another in the immediate aftermath.

— Tibisay Zea, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026

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Against encroaching social upheavals, the sovereign was resolutely the center of a mercantilist universe.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The underlying motivation for African policymakers is to untether their economies from commodity cycles and, by extension, the upheavals that come with them.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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Barnes said Monday that in addition to multiple sclerosis, Blair had been diagnosed with parkinsonism, a group of movement symptoms marked by tremors and stiffness.

— Mark Morales, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
The continuing tremors represented a sharp increase from the more than 47 aftershocks reported by Rivera during a Friday afternoon news conference.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

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Major technology revolutions have always triggered dramatic boom-bust cycles.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Few contemporary authors embody that idea more than Becky Chambers, whose stories imagine alternative futures—not through grand revolutions or galaxy-spanning battles but through ordinary people trying to care for one another.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026

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