Sentences with 'earthquakes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word earthquakes and other words derived from it.
• « Thales of Miletus explained earthquakes not as punishments arbitrarily inflicted by the gods on mankind, but as the result of the earth floating in a gigantic ocean that occasionally splashed against it. »
• « Inside the base of the crater of a volcano, magma moves and causes earthquakes that produce cracks. »
• « However, in times of extreme emergency, such as after earthquakes, volcanoes or crop failures, they resorted to the sacrifice of prisoners. »