"To arrest Fujimori would be to set off a political earthquake."
The resulting stress seems to be leading toward a political earthquake.
Symbolically, constitutionalists said, it was nothing less than a "political earthquake".
It's like watching a political and economic earthquake.
Tuesday's referendum was nothing less than a political and social earthquake.
The Democrats need a political earthquake to save them.
When they are down, as they were in 1980 and 1992, political earthquakes tend to follow.
"If the mayor is going to get involved in this race, it could set off a political earthquake."
When the results were released, a political earthquake followed.
If he does not hold it this year, anti-incumbency will be shown to amount to a political earthquake.