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earthquake | American Dictionary

earthquake
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɜrθˌkweɪk/
earth science
a sudden, violent movement of the earth’s surface, often causing damage and sometimes deaths

Examples of earthquake

earthquake
The decision to settle or move to an earthquake-prone location is typically a free choice of no moral significance.
Just as earthquakes and -oods erupt under pressure, causing abrupt mutations of the natural environment, men and women experienced psychological changes affecting their collective consciousness.
The benevolent qualities of younger people also featured in the earthquake stories.
Following the earthquake such values were especially important because strong family bonds were the basis of a strong nation.
Among the undergraduates, tornadoes or strong winds (ranked 45th; scored by 15% of sample) and earthquakes (48th; 12%) are rarely dreamed about.
This area is not located at the margins of the earth's crustal plates where structural stresses may be released as frequent earthquakes and intense volcanicity.
The contrast between earthquakes and hurricanes is starkly illustrated by differences in the venues in which testimony on these phenomena occur.
When two tectonic plates collide the visible signs for those above are volcanoes and earthquakes.
Collapsing onto a generator, it signaled the earthquake in the form of a power outage.
We told the police it must have been an earthquake.
The even stronger 1922 earthquake damaged buildings, cut phone service, and stopped the railroad.
Wobbling mappings occur in many real-world situations: rounding in numerical analysis, image processing, distortion of crystals, and earthquakes are typical examples.
The children who showed an up regulation of the two immune parameters following school entry had a significant increase in respiratory illness after the earthquake.
Threats to life come with the largest, whose power rivals that of high-magnitude earthquakes and exceeds most volcanism.
The provision of relief in the aftermath of the 1989 earthquake, for instance, was an important factor in their success.
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Collocations withearthquake

earthquake

These are words often used in combination with earthquake.

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destructive earthquake
Following a destructive earthquake, even the ceremony of rescue is morally and politically charged, as rescuers fight not against 'nature' but against the twisted ruins of their own design failures.
devastating earthquake
The first reports only a few weeks after this devastatingearthquake reveal that tourist bookings have dropped drastically.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
earthquake engineering
The title is misleading in that the book is overwhelmingly concerned with details of earthquake engineering, risk and hazard evaluation, and local site assessment.
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