Earthquake Quotations | Page 2

At least there is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

As we look across the region, we have earthquake activity distributed throughout the entire bay area. There's really no escape.

A big earthquake in the same region as the 1811-1812 earthquakes would have devastating consequences should they recur today because of the population centers around St. Louis and Memphis.

It's a friendly earthquake. It's a very good reminder to people in this region that we live in earthquake country. Some of the world's biggest earthquakes have occurred here.

For all the huge advances in the control of our lives through science and technology, an earthquake on this scale is truly humbling as well as profoundly tragic for everyone involved,

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine. We've looked at the fossil earthquakes, we've made computer models, and we've made laboratory earthquakes. We've studied them from afar, but we've never been inside the machine where the action is.

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine.

It looks as though a slow earthquake began to split it years ago. I have to grip the steering wheel of my Ranger very tightly as I dare to stay about 10 miles an hour slower than my faster sedan and coupe rivals, praying for deliverance at the county line.

Everybody needs to be prepared for 72 hours minimum. Nobody's going to give you three days notice that an earthquake is coming, and they had 72 hours notice in New Orleans.

It's important that each individual knows this can happen and knows how to take care of themselves because when a large earthquake happens there will not be enough response people to take care of it. An earthquake is not going to telegraph itself like that hurricane did. It's gonna happen and you're gonna know it.

It scared the crap out of me. I have never felt anything like it before. Well, yes I have, the 1994 Northridge earthquake (in California). It felt just like that.

The two matches will be played on April 18 and 19 with the 75% of earnings from the first match going to the relief funds of the earthquake in Pakistan and India.

There's talk of an earthquake in the Gulf of California. This is pushing bonds up.

The reverberations at first will be subterranean, but they will be of earthquake proportions.

These van drivers charged up to a hundred times more than the normal fare immediately after the earthquake when a huge number of patients had to be taken to hospital.

This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,

After the quake, we served customers for a few days out of a team member's home and our express delivery wagons delivered relief supplies and transported patients to safety from St. Mary's Hospital. The earthquake and fire, though they happened 100 years ago, still carry important lessons for all Wells Fargo communities across North America about the value of being ready for disasters.

Anyone is free to do business here. What's happened has happened. Let's forget about it, and move on. We helped each others' communities so much rebuild when the earthquake happened in 2001.

That same size earthquake in a populated area would probably cause quite considerable damage.

The Land Ministry will take thorough measures to work closely with local authorities to fully investigate the buildings handled by the architects as to whether their earthquake resistance data has been falsified or not.

I'm 81. and never in my lifetime have I known of, read of, heard of an earthquake of that instensity before,

India surely needs to network with the rest of the global earthquake community. It needs to re-think on all old issues.

In a year of urgent needs, Lilly and its employees stepped forward with extraordinary efforts. To ease the suffering of hurricane and earthquake victims, we gave essential medicines, cash, and supplies. To ensure that seniors and low-income patients had affordable access to drugs, we offered six patient assistance programs. And to halt the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, we partnered with the World Health Organizations and other groups to share expertise, improve treatment, and save lives.

I mean, we have taken care of threats emanating from sabotage, theft, natural causes like earthquake or hurricane -- but we did not take into the engineering analysis the possibility of an aerial attack by a large aircraft.

In essence they are faced with the unpleasant choice of managing this over a period of time or dealing with this all at once after an earthquake and dealing with life loss and clean up to boot. That's what sets us off from other countries of the world. That is how we save lives in Southern California we do have building codes and we do enforce them.

In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.

If you have an earthquake like there have been, seven or eight on the Richter scale, the scope of the disaster will be overwhelming and Katrina is a real-life illustration of what would happen. That's why we've focused on the average citizen being prepared.

If you close your eyes and imagine an earthquake happened instead of Katrina, the image would be the same: collapsed buildings, no running water or electricity, displaced citizens, and vast devastation

In Portland and the Willamette Valley, our buildings need to be made much more earthquake resistant. California has had almost 100 years to prepare after the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Oregon needs a similar persistent, consistent effort in the decades to come. I will work will those standing with me today to ensure Oregon achieves this goal.

If you think of a major disaster like Katrina or the 1906 earthquake in California, what that disaster does is kick you back a couple hundred years in technology for a few days, or maybe a few weeks.

In 1906 mission critical data was protected in bank vaults, desk drawers and filling cabinets. While the storage media were different a hundred years ago, the core issues of data recovery remain the same today. The earthquake that devastated the San Francisco Bay Area caused a major disruption in business continuity because people and businesses were unable to salvage vital business records.

BYU is probably one of the most progressive forces in Utah County for earthquake preparedness. I'm not concerned as much about the buildings on BYU campus as I am about the buildings most of the BYU students live in.

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

If food and other essential items can no longer be airlifted into the mountain valleys, the earthquake survivors, who have no other means of subsistence, will be at further risk.

I don't want to deal with any more hurricanes. I'd rather take an earthquake or a tornado,

You could imagine if there was an earthquake in Utah in winter and everyone ran outside and turned off their gas. By the time we could get around to relighting everyone, it would be a problem, because people would have no heat until we got there.

These are our levees. And the earthquake is our hurricane.

All facilities will be built to withstand a 6.5 level earthquake at Yucca Mountain, and the University of Nevada will monitor seismic activity,

All Californians need to be made aware of earthquake hazards and how to survive them. This handbook is a valuable primer for preparedness.

The hospital had received 1,500 injured children after the earthquake in the area and there were still 50 there. It was a pretty touching experience. Pakistan was awesome. Everything was much nicer than I expected. The hotel we stayed at was very westernized, so I wasn't roughing it all. I did not feel in danger at any point on the trip. The bus from the hotel to the squash center was led and followed by police cars at all times.

The enormity of the devastation caused by the massive earthquake in Pakistan will test if even this enhanced appeal would be adequate.

The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a giant earthquake that reminds us of how little control we have over human destiny -- despite our technology and innovation.

You've got an incredibly fragile link into Wellington. Having only one primary access into Wellington seems nuts. You have one big earthquake and you have no road.

The earthquake was approximately 50 kilometers or 30 miles below the earth's surface.

The earthquake relief is quickly forgotten. The anti-Americanism runs so deep that even positive efforts can be spun against the U.S.

The earthquake made the whole village homeless as house after house collapsed once the ground started to shake. We had to move down in search of shelter, otherwise our survival chances would have been low.

The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us,

The earthquake has had tragic consequences for hundreds of thousands of individuals and families. As a company with a longstanding commitment to Pakistan we appreciate the opportunity to provide some assistance to the victims at this very difficult time.

The earthquake cleared out one San Francisco -- which was the dominant place in California -- and replaced it with another. It accelerated the modernization of California.

The earthquake and fire, though they happened 100 years ago, still carry important lessons for all Wells Fargo communities across North America about the value of being ready for disasters.

The condition and welfare of earthquake survivors remains a matter of serious concern for the UN and all other humanitarian partners on the ground. But we are vigilant, ready and prepared to assist.

All of the dome-building that went on after the 1980 big eruption didn't have earthquake activity the way we're seeing it now.

I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.

This was the strongest earthquake in the last decade in this area.

All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.