An earthquake off Java in 2006 triggered a tsunami that killed about 600 people on the island's southern coast.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The events of May 6 triggered an investigation as to whether the feverish sell-off stemmed from a computer glitch or market manipulation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Communist leader Fidel Castro's overthrow of the Cuban government in 1959 triggered a huge exodus of Cubans to the west Miami neighborhood.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The issue of a new constitution for Kurdistan, which was removed from the ballot in weekend elections, triggered anxiety in both Washington and Baghdad.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The revelation triggered a wave of condemnation on the House floor, with Republicans j oining Democrats in calls to speed passage of new sanctions legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The campaign triggered a massive surge in illegal production of low-quality home-brewed alcohol.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

It's a type of severe anxiety that's triggered by a traumatic event.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Most of those killed in last week's earthquake died when a landslide triggered by the quake swept boulders as big as trucks across a dozen homes in the village of Cikangkareng.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Mr.Zelaya's arrest by Honduran troops and deportation to Costa Rica was triggered by his efforts to hold a referendum that could have kept him in office beyond the end of his term in January.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03