Earthquake Quotes

"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
-Karl Kraus

"I thought it was an earthquake."
-Hassan Ali

"We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation."
-Al Aqsa

"These numbers are like trying to predict an earthquake."
-Susan Gallagher

"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."
-Bill Steele

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
-Jeannette Rankin

"The same earth that made us the golden state made us earthquake country."
-Aimee Klask

"It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake."
-Lee Ferridge

"Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt."
-Lucy Jones

"There was an earthquake someplace? ... What earthquake?"
-Gutenberg

"This disaster may have the number of people who died after the disaster bigger than those killed by the earthquake."
-Rashid Khalikov

"You can imagine the political earthquake this is going to cause."
-Anita Hauser

"It's something you can't prepare for. It's like in California when you get an earthquake, all you can do is try to take cover."
-Reggie Wayne

"We send our condolences to the Pakistani people who have been affected by the earthquake."
-Colin Gibson

"Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?"
-Peter Tosh

"Well, here on the coast, ... the possibility of an earthquake, which would result in a tsunami, is our main concern here."
-David Davis

"It's not any more irrational to rebuild here than to rebuild after an earthquake in San Francisco or a wildfire in California."
-John Mccusker

"A destructive tsunami is not expected from the earthquake."
-Stuart Weinstein

"The death toll from the earthquake is now 38,000 and 62,000 people are injured."
-Shaukat Sultan

"It's a major earthquake, but it's quite a ways away from population."
-Waverly Person

"We expect that it will be several days before we have more definitive information about the earthquake."
-Bill Ellsworth

"This looks like a fraternal twin of the December 26 earthquake."
-Kerry Sieh

"Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?"
-John Joseph Lynch

"Because we do have recordings on the ground, it likely was a blast or a very tiny earthquake."
-John Cassidy

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

"It's not a duplicate. It occurred a little bit further south. But it's the same type of earthquake."
-Kerry Sieh

"One of the big things that we don?t think about is this area being the subduction zone for an earthquake."
-Mike Curry

"A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906."
-Simon Winchester