"powerful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The most powerful quake ever known to strike the United States occurred at New Madrid, Mo., in 1812.
- After the 1811 and 1812 earthquakes in New Madrid, Missouri, it is one of the most powerful and damaging quakes to hit the southeastern United States.
- A second, less powerful quake, measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale, struck in the early evening.
- The most powerful quake on record in the region was in 1944.
- On October 25, 1957, Pontremoli and Borgotaro were struck again by a very powerful quake.
- The powerful 30-second offshore quake was felt in Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and as far as Cancún in Mexico.
- These were in a good state of preservation prior to the rupture, suggesting it was one of the most powerful quakes in the region for approximately 900 years.
- A subsidiary, Formosa Heavy Equipment, rebuilt 16 elementary schools after the 921 earthquake, the most powerful quake in Taiwan in decades.
- Engineers have to go back to the drawing board to determine how best to reinforce structures, road and bridges to survive possibly more powerful quakes.
- Volcanologists said Monday that the powerful quake destabilized a fragile dome at the mountain's peak.
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