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• n  shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
• n  a disturbance that is extremely disruptive
  selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees

• Chris Helgren Reuters Dozens of residents in the province of L'Aquila, some 80 miles (130 km) east of Rome, were crushed in their beds when the earthquake struck at 3:32 a.
• An estimated 70% of the town's 20,000 population lies entombed, victims of the devastating earthquake that hit two weeks ago.
• Even for those born long after San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, it had become a habit to recall the warm, breezy conditions during that cataclysm.

• quake
• temblor
• seism

News & Articles

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• Earthquake, magnitude 3.1, jolts Inland Empire
  A small earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.1 jolted the Inland Empire area on Wednesday afternoon.
  June 19, 2013 - KABC-TV Los Angeles
• Peru earthquake: Small offshore earthquake rumbles Lima
  A small earthquake hit Peru at 1:40 p.m. local time Tuesday, just off the coast near Lima, Peru's capital city. No injuries or damage have been reported. 
  June 19, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Moderate earthquake strikes central Chile
  A moderate earthquake has shaken buildings in Chile's capital. The country's emergency office said no damage was immediately reported from the quake that struck in central Chile.
  June 19, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Washington Post (blog)
  Unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days,he says. "The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we...
• President Bush in Reuters India
  I extend my condolences to those injured and to the families of the victims of today's earthquake in China's Sichuan province,US President George W. Bush said in a statement. "I am particularly saddened by the number of students and...
• Wyclef Jean in FOXNews
  Haiti faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced,Jean said in a statement. "I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is, and idle hands will only make this...