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As the earthquake strikes and the palace crumbles, Theseus saves Ariadne, and is cheered by the bull-dancers and the native Cretans, who heard his warning and fled the palace in time.
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earthquake and strikes
* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
* 1999 – A 7. 4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17, 000 and injuring 44, 000.
* 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9, 000 people.
* 2011 – An earthquake measuring 6. 3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people.
* 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8. 8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured.
* 1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
* 1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40, 000 casualties.
* 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
* 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
* 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6. 5 M < sub > w </ sub > strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1, 300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
* 869 – A magnitude 8. 6M < sub > s </ sub > earthquake and subsequent tsunami strikes the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu, Japan.
* 1939 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán.
* 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
* 1976 – An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
* 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9. 0 in magnitude strikes east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people.
* 2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5: 53: 58 am local time ( 22: 53: 58 UTC May 26 ) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6, 600 people.
* 1997 – A 7. 3 M < sub > w </ sub > earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1, 567, injuring over 2, 300, leaving 50, 000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15, 000 homes.
* 1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30, 000.
* 1983 – A strong 7. 7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands.
* 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U. S. history at a magnitude of 9. 2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
* 1999 – A magnitude 6. 8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
* 1783 – A 5. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
* 1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7. 2 on the Richter scale.
* 1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1, 000 and injuring approximately 4, 000 more.
* 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
earthquake and palace
The earthquake caused massive devastation, with most buildings crumbled, including Haiti's presidential palace.
However, being a god, he is quickly able to break free and creates more havoc, razing the palace of Pentheus to the ground in a giant earthquake and fire.
His successors continued with his building program, but in 1755 the huge palace compound at Meknes was severely damaged by an earthquake.
The Marquis took control of the government after the terrible 1755 Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755, in which around 100, 000 people lost their lives ; the palace of her birth was also destroyed in the disaster.
A palace, dating from the Middle Bronze Age, was destroyed by an earthquake during the Late Bronze Age.
On its ruins ( probably destroyed by an earthquake around 1600 BC ) a palace of the later minoan period was built, bigger and magnificent.
In the aftermath of the Lisbon earthquake on November 1, 1755, which destroyed the royal palace, King Joseph I of Portugal took up residence in a huge complex of tents and barracks in Ajuda, on the outskirts of the city.
The palace of Malia, dating from the Middle Bronze Age, was destroyed by an earthquake during the Late Bronze Age ; Knossos and other sites were also destroyed at that time.
* Facade of Santissima Annunziata and adjacent Theatine palace ( Messina, destroyed in 1908 earthquake )
In the 15th century the Shirvanshah dynasty, under Ibrahim I of Shirvan, transferred his country's capital from Shemakha to Baku following a devastating earthquake, and where he committed himself to the construction of the " palace ".
earthquake and Theseus
Theseus feels strange before falling asleep, later finding out that he slept right through an earthquake.
Theseus feels strange again the next day, and when another earthquake occurs, people around him realize he can sense them.
Theseus feels so sick he knows there is going to be an immense earthquake soon.
earthquake and saves
The intervention of Archidamus II, who calls the Lacedaemonians to arms, simultaneously saves them from the earthquake and the helot attack.
The speaking Ambrosia plant attacks Lycurgus with Poseidon who causes an earthquake, but Hera saves him.
earthquake and is
The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.
One might take this as implying that Sheol is literally underground, although it is as easily read literally, as signifying an earthquake or split in the earth.
A powerful earthquake that struck the area in 1945 is thought to be responsible for the destruction.
* 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7. 5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
* 2011 – A 5. 8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake is felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
* 1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes than any other city in the Bay Area.
No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.
When very large quantities of food must be transported to regions like war zones, earthquake hit regions, etc., they must be stored for a long time, so cryogenic food freezing is used.
The Rock of Calvary is seen cracked through a window on the altar wall, the crack traditionally being said to be caused by the earthquake that occurred when Jesus died on the cross, and being said by more critical scholars to be the result of quarrying against a natural flaw in the rock.
A classic example is an earthquake that causes a tsunami, resulting in coastal flooding.
* 1939 – Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 30, 000.
* 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.
A great earthquake shakes the mountain, but God is not in the earthquake.
An earthquake ( also known as a quake, tremor or temblor ) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami.
In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.
This energy is released as a combination of radiated elastic strain seismic waves, frictional heating of the fault surface, and cracking of the rock, thus causing an earthquake.
This process of gradual build-up of strain and stress punctuated by occasional sudden earthquake failure is referred to as the elastic-rebound theory.
Most of the earthquake's energy is used to power the earthquake fracture growth or is converted into heat generated by friction.
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