Superquake

Quick meaning: Superquake is a noun meaning (seismology, geology, rare) An extremely destructive, large-scale quake, often an earthquake of such magnitude; megaseism; megaquake.

Meaning

(seismology, geology, rare) An extremely destructive, large-scale quake, often an earthquake of such magnitude; megaseism; megaquake.

Example Sentences

In January 1973, Newsweek magazine reported an earthquake somewhere in the world , and added: "It was not a superquake as earth tremors go."

This "superquake" may have been the largest in a series of earthquakes, thus marking the end of what's known as a supercycle: a sequence of several large earthquakes.

Others have suggested that, since this creeping section separates the two segments that have produced great earthquakes, that it is unlikely a "superquake" that ruptured all three sections could occur at one time.

Word Forms

• superquakes
• super-quake

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include super-quake, megaquake, megastorm, macroshock, superexplosion, supercatastrophe.

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