"I am sure that what I heard was a tremor, due to some distant earthquake shock," he said.

In addition, engineers and architects have worked to make buildings more resistant to earthquake shocks.

Slight earthquake shock and floods have rendered the line to Edgestow impassable.

He heard the roll of a thunderous roar that must have shuddered Chinatown like an earthquake shock.

The structural load or forces (weights, wind or water pressure, earthquake shocks, etc.) applied to a structure.

Nothing short of an earthquake shock or the force of some terrific explosive could have caused that result.

It is true that the western metropolis has suffered a severe earthquake shock but that is all.

A seiche occurs wherever an earthquake shock is transmitted through a lake or large river.

In the same way, there is a rule that our earthquake shocks are never mentioned, unless they destroy whole towns.

It hit the mat with an earthquake shock, and promptly started to come upright, but Honor had continued her own motion through a backwards somersault.