Earthquake

Quick meaning: Earthquake is a noun meaning A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

Meaning

A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

More Meanings

1. (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
2. (figuratively) A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
3. (intransitive) To undergo an earthquake.

Example Sentences

Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.

Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.

Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.

The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes.

Word Forms

• earthquakes
• earthquaking
• earthquaked

Synonyms for earthquake

Depending on context, synonyms include earthdin, quake, seism, temblor, tremblor, tremor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include seism, temblor, quake, aftershock, seismic, seismology.

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