More significantly, Ando's noteworthy achievement in these clustered buildings is site specific — the structures survived undamaged after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.

The Gothic convent was very much damaged in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, but the apse has survived, as well as the tomb of King Dinis and his daughter, Princess Maria Afonso.

( George survived the war, but was killed in a collapsed hotel during the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ).

As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "... red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion ... if the upper stories are not of red or blue ... they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown ..." While many of the mansions of Nob Hill were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city.

The neighborhood was completely destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire ( although miraculously, the area's skyscrapers survived ), and rebuilt.

In the next 1400 years, the bridge survived at least eight wars, ten major floods and numerous earthquakes, the most recent being the 7. 2-magnitude Xingtai Earthquake in 1966.

The school survived the Great Kanto Earthquake and continued to expand and outgrew the Foreign Settlement moving to Meguro in the 1920s.

Unlike many of his fellow Guardsmen, Earthquake survived the Imperial Guard's battle with Vulcan.

Ottman was one of the participants in the 20-man Gimmick Battle Royal match at WrestleMania X-Seven as Tugboat, and was eliminated by his former partner, Earthquake.

In early to mid-1991, Roberts engaged in a feud with Earthquake who " squashed " Damien with a pair of Earthquake splashes during a televised match ( in actuality, Roberts ' bag did not contain a snake but hamburgers stuffed in pantyhose with a small motor to create movement ).

His last high profile match with the WWF was during the April 28, 1990 ( taped April 23, 1990 ) edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, in which he lost to Earthquake in a squash match that lasted just under 2 minutes.

In his first match after signing on, a dark match on September 21, 1989, he was known as Earthquake Evans and managed by Slick.

After WrestleMania VII, Earthquake instigated a feud with Jake " the Snake " Roberts when, in their match that aired on WWF Superstars of Wrestling, he " squashed " Damien with his Earthquake splashes ; Earthquake had tied up Roberts in the ropes before going on his rampage.

" When the match aired on WWF Superstars of Wrestling, footage of Earthquake landing on Damien was interrupted with cutaway shots to that show's " Events Center ," although the incident aired uninterrupted and uncensored during WWF Prime Time Wrestling the following week.

Earthquake was scheduled to face Owen Hart in a King of the Ring qualifying match.

He did however return to the WWF one last time in 2001 with the Earthquake gimmick, where he was one of the participants of the 20 Man Gimmick Battle Royal match at WrestleMania X-Seven.

In a televised 6 man tag-team match, the Bushwhackers teamed with Tugboat against Earthquake and the Nasty Boys ; Tugboat turned on his partners after a few minutes of action and joined Earthquake in laying the two New Zealanders out cold.

DiBiase and Schyster formed the tag team of Money Inc. in February 1992 when Jimmy Hart put their names in place of The Natural Disasters ( Earthquake and Typhoon ) on a contract for a WWF Tag Team Championship match against Legion of Doom ( LOD ).

Jimmy Hart got revenge for the humiliation a few weeks later during a six-man tag team match featuring Earthquake and The Nasty Boys against the massive Tugboat and The Bushwhackers.

It was revealed in this match that Hart secretly signed Tugboat, who turned on his partners after a few minutes of action and joined the Earthquake in laying the two New Zealanders out cold with a big splash.

In a televised 6 man tag-team match the Bushwhackers teamed with Tugboat against Earthquake and the Nasty Boys, Tugboat turned on his partners after a few minutes of action and joined Earthquake in laying the two New Zealanders out cold.

In April, Junoon performed to a sold out concert at the Wembley Arena in London and went on to perform at the " United for Gujrat " concert, the first South Asian rock concert, held in New Delhi along with bands from India and Bangladesh, singing together to raise funds for the Gujrat Earthquake victims.

* Špičák, A., V. Hanuš, and J. Vaněk ( 2007 ), Earthquake occurrence along the Java trench in front of the onset of the Wadati-Benioff zone: Beginning of a new subduction cycle ?, Tectonics, 26, TC1005

SCET has also been identified as Resource Institute by the National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education ( NPEEE ) launched by Ministry of Human Resource Development ( India ) to train teachers of Architecture Institution for introducing EarthQuake Engineering in West & Central Zone along with IIT Kanpur.

Berkeley's slow growth ended abruptly with the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

Earthquake insurance can provide building owners with financial protection against losses resulting from earthquakes.

For this reason, stories about earthquakes generally begin with the disaster and focus on its immediate aftermath, as in Short Walk to Daylight ( 1972 ), The Ragged Edge ( 1968 ) or Aftershock: Earthquake in New York ( 1998 ).

* 1990 – The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7. 7.

A geographic rivalry with the cross-bay American League Athletics has grown larger as a result of the two teams meeting in the 1989 World Series, nicknamed the " Battle of the Bay ," which Oakland swept ( and which was interrupted by the Loma Prieta Earthquake moments before Game 3 ).

The first observations of normal modes were made in the 1960s as the advent of higher fidelity instruments coincided with two of the largest earthquakes of the 20th century-the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake and the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake.

* May 22 – The Great Chilean Earthquake: Chile's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Taitao Peninsula, causing the most powerful earthquake on record ( with a magnitude of 9. 5 ) and a tsunami.

* February 7 – The last New Madrid Earthquake strikes New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8 ;

* January 23 – The Shaanxi Earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China ; 830, 000 people may have been killed.

She appeared in a number of disaster films throughout the 1970s, notably Earthquake ( 1974 ) with Charlton Heston, The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ), and the Canadian movie City on Fire ( 1979 ).

Subwoofers came into greater popular consciousness in the 1970s with the introduction of Sensurround in movies such as Earthquake, which produced loud low-frequency sounds through large subwoofers.

Subwoofers received a great deal of publicity in 1974 with the movie Earthquake which was released in Sensurround.

The invention of the cocktail " Earthquake " or Tremblement de Terre is attributed to Toulouse-Lautrec: a potent mixture containing half absinthe and half cognac ( in a wine goblet, 3 parts Absinthe and 3 parts Cognac, sometimes served with ice cubes or shaken in a cocktail shaker filled with ice ).

While experiencing a political storm, China was also hit with a massive natural disaster — the Tangshan Earthquake, officially recorded at magnitude 7. 8 on the Richter Scale, authorities refused large amounts of foreign aid.

In 1945, work had begun to convert the CR & NW railroad line, from Cordova to Kennicott, into a highway, but work halted with the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, leaving a significant gap between Chitina and the Million Dollar Bridge near Cordova.

Lucas obtained property from the federal government with land grants, and he purchased the land from victims of the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811.

Gold believed that this would explain the number of unusual phenomena associated with earthquakes, such as fires, flares, Earthquake lights and gas emissions.

The genre had its greatest box office success during the 1970s with the release of Airport ( 1970 ), followed in quick succession by The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ) and The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ).

The trend reached its zenith in 1974 with the release of The Towering Inferno, Earthquake and Airport 1975 ( the first Airport sequel ).

The competing films enjoyed staggering success at the box office, with The Towering Inferno earning $ 55 million, Earthquake $ 36 million and Airport 1975 $ 25 million.

Earthquake was also honored with four Academy Award nominations for its impressive special effects of a massive earthquake leveling the city of Los Angeles, winning for Best Sound and receiving a Special Achievement Award for visual effects.

Additional legends credit him with the ability to transform himself into animals, of having caused the San Francisco Earthquake, and of having fought a duel with Jesse James