85 Quotes About Earthquake

  • Author Aprilynne Pike
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    I had to think of my mom and brother. Of my freedom. And then when ... when you became more important than all of those things put together, it was too late. - pg. 171

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  • Author Richard Allen
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    Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

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  • Author Allen Benson
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    In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.

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  • Author John Cassidy
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    There weren't a huge number of reports. On our website, typically after a felt earthquake we would have hundreds.

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  • Author Mike Curry
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    An earthquake here would truly devastate us in that same way that people in New Orleans are being devastated.

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  • Author Steve Chapman
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    You could imagine if there was an earthquake in Utah in winter and everyone ran outside and turned off their gas. By the time we could get around to relighting everyone, it would be a problem, because people would have no heat until we got there.

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