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List of paraphrases for "quakes":
earthquakes, tremors, seismological, earthquake, aftershocks, seismology, seismic, quake
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The quakes don't sound like much to somebody from California, but when you are sitting right on top of them, they are more than noticeable. They will shake the entire house, and you have no doubt about it when you have gone through it. We have in my home perhaps 100 or more wall hangings, pieces of art -- prints, etchings, oil originals -- and none of them are hanging straight.
Blanco Fracture zone quakes are strike-slip( lateral motions of the crustal blocks on either side, rather than up-down displacement), so it is very unlikely for them to pose a tsunami threat, even if a bigger quake happened, like a magnitude 7.0 for example.
I hope this movie can be a gut check and a visceral reminder to people of the danger from quakes, but then that people will also do a head check about how they can really be prepared…to react by looking at some good research and using their heads about the dangers we really face.
These are workers who pay 200,000-500,000 rupees ($1,850-$4,640) to go abroad in the first place, and are very likely still paying off that debt, the quakes exacerbated their indebtedness.
If the earthquake had all come at once, it would have been OK, but these small quakes, the ones that keep coming, are really making my heart panic, my children are scared too and don't want to go back. They want to stay here, out in the open.
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