1.The number of the people reached as many as 250,000.People lost homes.2.The boy was John's brother.We saw the boy yesterday.3.It sounded like a train.The train was going under my house.4.The car was destroyed in the earthquake.My father has just bought the car.5.The earthquake was the biggest in American history.The earthquake shook the city in 1996.6.The house stayed up in the earthquake.They built the house in 1987.7.The house is built on sand.The house may fall down in the earthquake.8.People study the earthquake.People think that there will be another big one soon.9.I know the people.None of them were killed.10.Ivisited the boy.He was a friend of mine.