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The day the

Earth moved
check these words
definitions
● strike -1) hit someone 2)the idea strikes you suddenly think
● devastating - making smth very shocked
● nuclear meltdown - an extremely dangerous situation in a nuclear power
station
● axis - imaginary line around which object turns
● foreshock - Earth after earthquake
● exceed - more than is usual\allowed
● shake - to make quick,short movement from side to side
● epicentre - the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the earthquake
● authorities - the official power to make decisions or to control other people
● warning - smth that tells or shows you that smth bad may happen
● head for- to be likely to get smth soon
● roll across- to move somewhere by turning in a circular direction
● crash into - make it hit smth by accident
● be loaded with - to contain a lot of smth
● debris -rubbish,construction waste
● landslide-a movement of rocks
● mud-liquid mixture of soil and water

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