(1) As a political earthquake , the end of the Empire measured right at the top of the Richter scale.

(2) Sunday's quake was both an aftershock of last year's tremor, and an earthquake in its own right.

(3) The violent earthquake unleashed itself under the sea near northern Indonesia on December 26.

(4) This week, the PM was sunning himself in Tuscany when a political earthquake shook Europe.

(5) After the break, we'll take a closer look at the man at the epicenter of a political earthquake .

(6) And we seem to be in the midst of one, as if caught up in a social earthquake .

(7) They would need to be at least six points ahead of the rest to do that, and that would take a political earthquake .

(8) Earthquake zone

(9) Nine on the Richter scale indicates an earthquake of absolutely awesome destructive power.

(10) A political earthquake

(11) Fifteen years ago this Tuesday a political earthquake brought down the Berlin Wall.

(12) Within days of the earthquake she had been flown out of the country and was back home with her parents.

(13) The same danger lurks there as caused a political earthquake in France two weeks ago.

(14) The stop the war movement has been a political earthquake in Britain.

(15) All of the parties praised the fact that the expected political earthquake had not taken place.

(16) There are worries that there could be an aftershock earthquake , which could trigger another tsunami.

(17) There are two democratic earthquakes happening right now.

(18) Tsunamis are waves formed when huge masses of water are displaced by undersea volcanic eruptions or earthquakes .

(19) When it came to measuring these big earthquakes , the Richter scale fell short.

(20) A lifetime of earthquakes and landslides and volcanos and floods have changed the landscape as we once knew it.