Based on that, he added, a good guess for recurrences of great quakes would lie between 300 and 1,000 years.

A great quake opened a fissure under the river, and now it falls into a mighty underground lake below.

The last great quake to hit Tokyo, in 1923, killed 200,000 people.

Steep angles produce much less rubbing between the plates, and thus no great quakes.

Around the time of the last great quake about 2.5 million people lived in central Tokyo; today the figure is three times that.

Oh, no; there was a great quake here, almost one of our Long Years ago.

An earthquake measuring 8.0 is a "great" quake capable of tremendous damage.

At a certain point in time, there was a great quake on Planet Zi.

Also, the next great quake will be far more devastating, scientists say.

The other half was preserved four years later during the great southern quake.