Rob Sheffield

Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.

American Journalist

Bill Dedman

Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.

Camille Paglia

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

American Author

Flying Lotus

I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic thing for me. I'd never had anything like that happen before. It's always stuck with me.

American Musician

Vernon Howard

Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

Johnny Vegas

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

British Comedian

Charles Stanley

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

American Clergyman

Peter Hook

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

English Musician

Used to emphasize strong emotions beyond physical shaking.

Emotional Intensity

'Quake' can be used metaphorically for describing internal feelings.

Not Always Literal

Sometimes 'quake' is used to exaggerate a slight nervous feeling.

Exaggeration Alert

'Quake' as a noun often refers to seismic events specifically.

Earthquake Reference

Common in journalistic or scientific context to report tremors.

Used in Reports

Quakes are described as 'minor' or 'major' based on their strength.

Intensity Scale

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 During the quake, many buildings between six and fifteen stories tall collapsed. What's strange is that while shorter buildings nearby did keep standing, buildings taller than fifteen stories were also less damaged, and the midsized buildings that collapsed were observed shaking far more violently than the earthquake itself.

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 are overdue for a massive earthquake. But due to the many variables involved, this method can only predict very loose timeframes. To predict more imminent events, researchers have investigated the vibrations Earth elicits before a quake.

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 scientists monitor tremors and quakes from around the globe if a quake big enough to cause a tsunami occurs it is their job to alert the coastlines in the tsunamis path the advice is simple move to higher ground wait for news that the

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