Quotes About Earthquake

Great Lisbon Earthquake that, in the space of one day in 1755, took the breath out of a nation's imperial aspirations and redirected European philosophical and social thought.

One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

World history is [the] conflict of nature in man and apart from man, akin to the other great spectacles of nature... the earthquake, the thunderstorm, the storm. The beauty of destruction, the greatness of the will to win.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

after the West Coast, the New Madrid Zone in the nation's heartland provided the greatest earthquake risk in the United States.

Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.

Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.

You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

At the sound of Babylonís capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.

The earth quakes and writhes because the LORDís intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.

Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.