To be frank, the president is not an earthquake expert, his coordination will only mess up the relief work.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Fire, earthquake, theft... public liability, group insurance, industrial stuff and so on.

Charles Francis Richter ( April 26, 1900 September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist.

And after the quake, we started bringing in earthquake engineers to figure out why the buildings collapsed, to examine what was safe and what wasn't.

Both involved terrible earthquakes that resulted in tremendous human suffering and large scale physical damage.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles these are the beginnings of sorrows.

While it was the deadliest earthquake and the fourth deadliest natural disaster in history, there have been earthquakes with considerably higher magnitudes.

The San Salvador area has been hit by earthquakes in 1576, 1659, 1798, 1839, 1854, 1873, 1880, 1917, 1919, 1965, 1986, 2001 and 2005.

The supplementary fiscal spending will span a total of 15 months, focusing on speedy completion of public works required for recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

There were no tsunamis or earthquakes in West and Central Africa, thank God, but the number of people suffering there is no less impressive or unpleasantly disturbing.

This widely condemned governmental neglect of the Kobe earthquake victims was among the major sources of public indignation that helped popularize the reform movement from which Kan emerged.

It was the tsunami, caused by the largest earthquake ever to strike Japan, that killed more than 16,000 people, destroyed or damaged roughly 125,000 buildings, and left the country facing what its prime minister described as its biggest crisis since World War II. Yet it is Fukushima that is habitually accorded the disaster label.