Earthquake Quotations

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of the Tohoku region - and also to show everyone around the world that Japan is doing fine again. These are messages we have to convey through the power of sport.

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

When you are submitted and committed to the Lord, you will look forward to Jesus coming back, and not even an earthquake or Hurricane Irene will be able to shake you from the love of Christ.

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

What have we lost? Well, we've lost a scientist who is really concerned about the quality of life for people who live in earthquake country. We have terabytes of information Tony gathered in the '80's and '90's (about earthquakes and land movement). That will be just part of Tony's legacy.

We are talking about an earthquake that has sent us back 50 years and will lead the entire region into chaos.

Sharon caused a fundamental earthquake in the concept of the peace process. His way was separation and to let the Palestinians stew in their own juices, so to speak ... How this will continue without Sharon is what everyone is asking now.

Seventy-five percent of the revenue will go to the earthquake affected people in Pakistan, while 25 percent will go to affected Indians.

Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.

If a coastal earthquake does occur ... it will take some time to arrange for delivery of materials and services and getting people out of areas. When you have such a large area and transportation routes would be gone, we are looking at a really significant impact.

Giving for the tsunami was literally off the charts. There may be an issue of donor fatigue, it's too early to tell, but it looks like giving for the Pakistan earthquake is more typical of the historical response by U.S. donors to international emergencies.

We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Having seen what happened with Katrina last year and how much devastation that caused, we have a similar situation here in having widespread type of damage. This town meeting is to really help the public better understand their chances of seeing an earthquake occur and what could happen if it did occur.

We may be six months on from the earthquake and through a mercifully mild winter, but there is still the monsoon to come and the next winter is only seven months away.

Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two appeals we have now received, one from the United Nations and one from the Red Cross movement,

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm. I would tell people, like any earthquake in California, to consider it as a reminder to get the battery and food and water and everything. But I don't think there's a big danger from it.

I think because there are real Indian and Pakistani constituencies in the United States , we'll wind up with money for earthquake relief that may be somewhat above the norm for these kinds of forgotten disasters. I think donors still have some spare change in their pockets.

I think this is the first tremor that will ultimately be a political earthquake and that earthquake I think will change the political landscape in Wisconsin.

It is important, with winter approaching, that the plight of those needing blankets and tents in the earthquake zone is not forgotten,

Like nuclear conflicts on the Korean Peninsula or an earthquake in Tokyo, ... the more focus on the issue and safeguards taken to prevent it, the better the chance that the worst fears are not realized.

It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times.

People across the Indian subcontinent have felt the pain and anguish of those who have lost their loved ones and livelihoods in the earthquake that ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, on both sides of the Line of Control, and parts of Pakistan,

Pakistan was deeply appreciative of the solidarity and support readily extended by the leadership of Saudi Arabia in the wake of the devastating earthquake on 8 October.

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to occur, but you can't tell if it's going to occur this year or next year or the year after.

I think of it as an opportunity to talk about the earthquake using visual materials in a different way.

It has only been in the last 10 years that this fault's significance has been understood. For the most part, Oregonians believe that Oregon doesn't have the kind of earthquake history that California or even Washington has.

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

The amount of shaking was actually surprising. We wouldn't expect this small of an earthquake to be felt as strongly and as widely as it was.

Most Californians are aware that we live in earthquake country, but landslides can be every bit as dangerous as temblors. Fortunately, unlike earthquakes, landslides sometimes give warning signs that residents can identify in order to protect the safety of their homes and families.

Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?

We don't suggest that because San Francisco citizens live on top of an earthquake fault that they should be moved, ... The question of whether New Orleans should be rebuilt, one of the great cities of this country, is not really a question in my mind.

We have to make sure that if another major earthquake comes, people are better prepared. That means building better and stronger homes and communities than they had before.

When I first was contacted, I knew that something had to be done. The two things that kept running through my mind were the earthquake warning in 1990 - even though nothing happened, we dismissed school - and what has been done at other schools when bomb threats have been made.

We are seeing continued growth in precision civilian applications such surveying, precision agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, geodesy, as well as volcano and earthquake research. More specifically at the Department of Transportation where I work, we are expanding our applications across the entire U.S. transportation infrastructure,

We'd never seen signals from an earthquake of this size, and the availability of this instrumentation was a real breakthrough in being able to see the complete rupture process of one of these truly monstrous events.

We were able to hear the earthquake rupture. It's a very eerie sound, obviously. It definitely sends shivers down your spine... It's the sound of the earth ripping apart for that long.

The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing the likelihood of an eruption either in the form of more explosions or perhaps lava flow from the dome,

The deep concern is that people who survived the earthquake should not now perish because of something like a tent fire. Our deepest desire is to help earthquake survivors make it through the winter alive.

We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake fissures and they rebuild too. Stubbornness.

While no one today could have had the power to prevent the earthquake from happening, we do have the power to stop the next wave: the deaths and despair caused by freezing temperatures and disease, by lack of shelter, food and water,

We didn't expect such a big earthquake in that location.

This will help energize further the struggle to reach the earthquake stricken communities in the Himalayas.

Two hours after the earthquake has occurred, the wave is spreading out from the Bay of Bengal,

The government of India has offered assistance of US$25 million for relief and the rehabilitation of earthquake victims.

Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain.

There is nothing in this letter that gives Senator Boxer any comfort that a catastrophic earthquake in California would be handled any better than Katrina. We just hope and pray that the earthquakes will wait until DHS finishes all their bureaucracy.

We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 percent of the proceeds will go to earthquake victims of Pakistan and the rest to the people affected in India.

We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.

With Rita, we had the benefit of time. We may not have that time in an earthquake scenario or similar incident.

The probability of a large and damaging earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area in the next 30 years is 70 percent, and that has an uncertainty of plus or minus 10 percent.

We are very grateful for the help. Although the earthquake did not destroy our hospital, it is now too dangerous to use. At least we can now carry on providing medical services through the winter.

We're developing a prototype system that will interface tsunami computer simulations with buoy observations and earthquake information to make a forecast at the beach. That will be a step forward.

We are a region with two masters. One is India and the other Pakistan. Each of them want to stick to their viewpoint and we are at the receiving end. In a calamity such as an earthquake we should be allowed to take our own decisions.

Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?'

As the dot-com economy collapsed and the Nisqually earthquake occurred, it became clear to people that projects of that scale were not realistic.

A tremendous job was done after the 1906 earthquake in making the observations of everything that really occurred. We are still using that report today as a fundamental source of material about what earthquakes do, and how to respond.

At this moment we are asking the international community to come to Pakistan's help in the wake of the earthquake and this blast will send a wrong signal outside,

Disasters -- flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on -- have a schizophrenic political life, ... Before, or between, events you don't have people marching on city hall or state capitol steps saying, 'Save us from the hurricane, earthquake etc.'

An earthquake won't get smarter or stronger or change locations just because we protected our buildings. The question is, how do our strategies change when their goals and values are not the same as ours? We're talking about some bigger issues.

An earthquake will be our Katrina, and this event will help community members learn the hazards and how to best prepare their family for earthquakes and other disasters.

An earthquake of this size shakes the ground for quite a distance away from its epicenter so we're expecting that there is damage from this earthquake.

An earthquake here would truly devastate us in that same way that people in New Orleans are being devastated.

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

These are usually described in the form of a design earthquake with a time history of the motion and shaking characteristics that are expected.

The same earth that made us the golden state made us earthquake country.

The San Francisco earthquake was not caused by God,

It was a little bit more frightening than the earthquake I was in, ... You could see the faces of people screaming at you.

The story of earthquake insurance in California is one of cut and run.

Seen from the air, it is very clear that this disaster is worse than the earthquake of 1972, ... I have known other cases of disaster, and I know the worst is yet to come -- cholera and dengue.

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

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December 26 marks the one year anniversary of the tragic earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in eight countries and took the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more.

That's how he builds, like a fortress. A lot of people don't think forward, ... What's the point in building a building that can't withstand an earthquake if you're in an earthquake zone?

That's just a little taste of what's liable to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. There's no reason why a much bigger earthquake couldn't happen there.

A hurricane is much different than an earthquake, there is no planning for an earthquake it's not going to give us three days notice.

This is a series of quakes like those that occur in many other parts of the world. We don't expect to have a large earthquake or a devastating earthquake from this.

This is a tremendous opportunity to join an already established, championship team and to direct their continued growth from both the business end as well as player personnel, ... I would like to thank Tim and everyone at AEG for their faith in me and pledge to the entire San Jose Earthquake organization and their fans that we will continue to build a club that will be successful, profitable and respected both on and off the field.

This is not an earthquake prediction instrument. We are testing whether these types of earthquakes on this particular fault are predictable.

This earthquake didn't just break all the records, it also broke some of the rules.

They were deathtraps, ... We have to build schools all over the world that are not deathtraps, that are earthquake proof.

This is an earthquake which has taken us back 50 years and will lead to an upheaval.

This is an earthquake in the Middle East. It's hard to see any negotiations now between anybody.

A major earthquake near the Delta or a severe break in Delta levees would cause significant flooding at great human and economic cost for the (San Francisco) Bay area and the state, ... Congress needs to provide this funding before it's too late.

A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training.

There weren't a huge number of reports. On our website, typically after a felt earthquake we would have hundreds.

There were really two stages to the disaster. The earthquake was in itself enormous and San Francisco was badly damaged, but the greatest horror and chaos would soon follow in the form of the worst urban fire in American history.

There'll be no major earthquake in Lebanon. There'll be only one element: the presidency,

They're not over. For a shallow-depth earthquake like this they go on, sometimes for a year.