1.   The earthquake leveled the city.

2.   But since an earthquake leveled most of his hometown on Monday, Echeverry no longer pushes papers.

3.   The earthquake leveled it as if a malign giant had been stomping the ground.

4.   The golf driving range that Shinya Muto built just outside Kobe, Japan, was still standing after an earthquake leveled the city last January.

5.   True, it made headlines earlier this year when a massive earthquake leveled a city in western India, killing thousands and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.