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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.
Gloria Reuben
Me
Experience
Calm
Earthquake
Out
Nerves
Doing
Yoga
Really
Started
Stressed
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler
War
Great
Technology
Architecture
World
Made
Strides
Earthquake
Characteristics
Only
Allowing
Advanced
Advanced Technology
Tall
Buildings
Traditional
Were
Modern
After
Japanese
Infusing
Expressing
Resistant
World War
World War II
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
James Balog
Nature
Events
Old
Big
Everything
Earthquake
Carry
Small
Volcanic
Reminded
Idea
Still
Huge
Eruption
Survive
Manage
Hang
Happen
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
James Buchan
Money
Year
Rich
United Nations
Aid
Other
Wave
Spend
Earthquake
Relief
Charitable
Some
Development
Countries
Adventurers
New
Disaster
Attract
Tidal
Overseas
South
Governments
American
Nations
Oxfam
Famine
Tax
Children
Tax Money
While
Rich Countries
Organisations
Each
Brigade
Fund
United
Jesus
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
John Breaux
Fault
Top
Earthquake
Francisco
Lies
Because
Moved
San
San Francisco
Should
Suggest
Being in the bands of a hurricane, it's not like a tornado that's going to pass very quickly. It's the most serious thing that you will ever experience next to, I'm sure, an earthquake.
Joshua Henry
You
Experience
Will
Earthquake
Tornado
Hurricane
Like
Most
Sure
Pass
Very
Quickly
Bands
Going
Being
Next
Serious
Ever
Thing
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
Josiah Strong
Great
Change
Society
Great Change
Earth
Earthquake
Ranks
Various
Like
Terrible
Without
Fixed
Upheaval
Social
Europe
Strata
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
Karen Thompson Walker
Day
Change
Few
Incredibly
Our
Earth
Extremely
Slight
Earthquake
Though
Haunting
Only
Had
Idea
Read
Affected
After
Length
Shortening
Rotation
Even
Found
Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.
Laurent Lamothe
Education
Food
You
Grateful
People
Water
Care
Thanks
Our
Extremely
Earthquake
Toward
Generous
Haiti
Most
Vulnerable
Shelter
Been
Very
Canadians
After
Medical
Medical Care
Received
We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.
Marjorie Liu
Time
Every
Every Time
Earthquake
Outbreak
Terrible
End
Disease
Event
Imagine
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.
Martin Jacques
Year
Earthquake
Relay
Torch
Riots
Followed
Perceptions
Tibet
Days
Global
Until
Terms
Still
Proved
Demonstrations
Go
Tragedy
Surrounding
Beijing
Tumultuous
China
Heels
Hard
Olympic
Olympics
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?'
Mary Schapiro
Morning
Financial
Problems
First
Every
Our
Earthquake
About
Pick
Institutions
Read
Question
Up
Staff
Japan
Newspaper
Ask
European
Exposure
When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.
Misha Collins
Me
People
Matter
Twitter
Earthquake
Posted
Had
Haiti
Hours
Couple
Been
Up
Account
Donate
Donated
Happened
UNICEF
Registered
Set
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
Nancy Gibbs
Life
War
People
Farm
Earthquake
Spent
Out
Photographer
City
Most
His
Camps
Refugee
Famine
Want
James
Flattened
Swallowed
Places
Avoid
Professional
Village
Professional Life
Flood
Zone
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.
Paul Farmer
Nature
Training
Lost
Nothing
Society
Programs
Else
Earthquake
Has-Been
Weakness
About
Haiti
Haitian
Perhaps
Obvious
Talking
Because
Revealed
Always
Been
Being
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Centralized
Mean
Them
Medical
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Phil Donahue
Doctor
Honor
First
Earthquake
Statues
Performing
Like
Surgery
Covering
Prize
Reporters
Presenting
I lived in Bandra East, on the 12th floor. There was a small earthquake; I could feel the building shaking. I was halfway down the stairs when I realised I'd forgotten my laptop, and all my scripts were on it. If I lost the laptop, I'd lose all my work. I ran back up to get it!
Rajkumar Hirani
Work
Building
Lose
Lost
Down
Back
Ran
Back Up
Earthquake
East
All My Work
Small
Shaking
Could
Feel
Halfway
Were
Up
Get
Forgotten
Realised
Stairs
Scripts
Laptop
Lived
Floor
I came back to Haiti after the earthquake not to shoot a film, but to help and be a part of the rebuilding process, like all my fellow compatriots. I didn't come to shoot a film, but I became frustrated when I realized that my help was kind of useless. We all felt lost and helpless. And it's out of that frustration that I decided to shoot a film.
Raoul Peck
Frustration
Lost
Back
Earthquake
Out
Kind
Part
Haiti
Come
Like
Fellow
Became
Felt
Came
Shoot
After
Decided
Process
Frustrated
Realized
Help
Useless
Helpless
Film
Rebuilding
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.
Stephen F. Lynch
Natural
People
Job
Weather
Congress
Earthquake
One Thing
About
Struck
Like
Disaster
Talk
Talking
How
How Many People
Coming
Been
Loss
The One Thing
After
Natural Disaster
Many
Washington
Thing
Here
Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.
Stephen Hunter
Good
Day
Better
Tomorrow
Somewhere
Drama
Considered
Earthquake
Purely
Absurd
Towering
Checks
Disaster
Most
Steve
Dead
Steve McQueen
Genres
Because
Least
Than
Inferno
Middle
After
McQueen
Newman
Little
Paul
Paul Newman
Hollywood
Star
Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.
Stephen Moore
War
People
Nation
Other
Earthquake
Crisis
More
Provide
Than
American
Any
Whenever
International
Flood
Assistance
Haiti is not an easy place to fight disease, even in the best of times. That was true even before a devastating earthquake ravaged Haiti's capital and largest city, Port-au-Prince, in 2010.
Tom Frieden
Best
Fight
Before
Earthquake
City
Easy
Devastating
True
Haiti
Times
Disease
Place
Capital
Even
Largest
In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.
Tony Danza
Earthquake
Out
Run
House
Should
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
Warren Rudman
You
Care
First
Down
Chaotic
Earthquake
Airport
Collapsing
Angeles
Highways
Major
Hours
Buildings
How
How Much
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Huge
Going
Much
Planning
Bridges
Railroads
Shut
During my time in Pakistan, I was asked to lead an expedition to Azad Kashmir following a devastating earthquake in 2005 that claimed the lives of 80,000 people.
Will Hurd
Time
People
Earthquake
Claimed
Following
My Time
Devastating
Lead
Expedition
Asked
Kashmir
Pakistan
Lives
I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.
William J. Clinton
Work
Together
Grateful
People
President
Saving
President George W. Bush
Earthquake
Presidents
Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina
Both
Countries
Haitian
Am
George
South
George W
George W. Bush
South Asia
Done
After
Which
Asia
Bush
Poor
Poor Countries
Katrina
Lives
Millions
Millions Of People
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