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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

~Adam Hamilton

Topics: Beings Calling Comforts Death Destroying Doing Earthquakes Economies Even God Help His Human Human Beings Need Neighbors Pain People Sending Shadow Them Through Valley Walking Works

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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Acts Be Prepared Earthquakes Everything Fires Floods Must Nuclear Nuclear Power Plants Power Prepared Terrorism Withstand

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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

~Bear Grylls

Topics: After Been Courage Days Earthquakes End Greatest Look Many Shown Some Surviving Survivors Women

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If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Depression Earthquakes Economy Geology Study Understand Want You

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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

~Bill Condon

Topics: Big Direct Earthquakes Fifty Gay Kinsey Last Line Movement Social Think Those Two Which Women Years I Think

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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.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Area Built California Coastline Damage Earthquake Earthquakes Low Major Nuclear Nuclear Power Plants Power Risk Surprisingly Those Thought Why Zone

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There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We can't predict where a hurricane is going to be a month in advance.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Advance Been Day Down Earthquake Earthquakes Going Great Hurricane Intensive Lot Month Predict Really Research Where

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Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Apply Does Dr Earthquakes Extending Great Great Part Justice Less Magnitude Name Part Parts Played Scale Than Usual World

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Appropriate Compare Correction Distance Earthquakes Measured Might Recorded Stations Suggested Terms

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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Alike Closer Constant Course Earthquakes Emerged Except Expected Factor Magnitude Proved Scale Than Truth Were

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