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Definition: Earthquake |
EarthquakeNoun1. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "earthquake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | Earthquake n. [IBM] The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants. Source: Jargon File. |
Bible | Earthquake mentioned among the extraordinary phenomena of Palestine (Ps. 18:7; comp. Hab. 3:6; Nah. 1:5; Isa. 5:25). The first earthquake in Palestine of which we have any record happened in the reign of Ahab (1 Kings 19:11, 12). Another took place in the days of Uzziah, King of Judah (Zech. 14:5). The most memorable earthquake taking place in New Testament times happened at the crucifixion of our Lord (Matt. 27:54). An earthquake at Philippi shook the prison in which Paul and Silas were imprisoned (Act 16:26). It is used figuratively as a token of the presence of the Lord (Judg. 5:4; 2 Sam. 22:8; Ps. 77:18; 97:4; 104:32). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To see or feel the earthquake in your dream, denotes business failure and much distress caused from turmoils and wars between nations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | Seismic event on another planetary body. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A shaking or trembling of the earth that accompanies mountain building or other crustal movements including those caused by deposition of heavy loads of sediment on the sea bottom. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | This term is used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slip, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or other sudden stress changes in the earth. (references) |
| A sudden ground motion or vibration of the Earth. Produced by a rapid release of stored-up energy along an active fault. (references) | |
| The abrupt shaking of the ground caused by an abrupt shift of rock along a fracture in the Earth. (references) | |
| Shaking of the Earth caused by a sudden movement of rock beneath its surface.<>. (references) | |
Mining | A. A local trembling, shaking, undulating, or sudden shock of the surface of the earth, sometimes accompanied by fissuring or by permanent change of level. Earthquakes are most common in volcanic regions, but often occur elsewhere. Syn:temblor b. Groups of elastic waves propagating in the earth, setup by a transient disturbance of the elastic equilibrium of a portion of the eart. (references) |
Public Administration | The violent shaking of the ground produced by deep seismic waves, beneath the epicentre, generated by a sudden decrease or release in a volume of rock of elastic strain accumulated over a long time in regions of seismic activity(tectonic earthquake). The magnitude of an earthquake is represented by the Richter scale; the intensity by the Mercalli scale; -DDMG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | Sudden motion in Earth caused by abrupt release of slowly accumulated strain. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An earthquake is a trembling or shaking movement of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faultss, quasi-planar zones of deformation within its uppermost layers. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the source region itself. The solid earth is in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics) and earthquakes occur where the resulting Stress exceeds the capacity of Earth materials to support it. This condition is most often found at (and the resulting frequent occurrence of earthquakes is used to define) the boundaries of the tectonic plates into which the Earth's lithosphere can be divided. Events that occur at plate boundaries are called interplate earthquakes; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes.
Earthquakes occur every day on Earth, but the vast majority of them are minor and cause no damage. Large earthquakes can cause serious destruction and massive loss of life via a variety of agents of damage including fault rupture, vibratory ground motion (i.e., shaking), inundation (e.g., tsunami, seiche, dam failure), various kinds of permanent ground failure (e.g. liquefaction, landslide), and fire or hazardous materials release. In a particular earthquake, any of these agents of damage can dominate, and historically each has caused major damage and great loss of life, but for most earthquakes shaking is the dominant and most widespread cause of damage.
Most large earthquakes are accompanied by other, smaller ones, known as foreshocks when they occur before the principal or mainshock and aftershocks when they occur following it. The source of an earthquake is distributed over a significant area -- in the case of the very largest earthquakes, in excess of a thousand kilometres -- but it is usually possible to identify a point from which the earthquake waves appear to emanate. That point is called its "focus" and usually proves to be the point at which fault rupture was initiated. The position of the focus is known as the "hypocentre" and the location on the surface directly above it is the "epicenter." Earthquakes, especially those that occur beneath sea- or ocean-covered areas, can give rise to tsunamis, either as a direct result of the deformation of the sea bed due to the earthquake, or as a result of submarine landslips or "slides" indirectly triggered by it.
In the 1930s, a California seismologist named Charles F. Richter devised a simple numerical scale (which he called the magnitude) to describe the relative sizes of earthquakes, which has come to be called the Richter scale. Since Richter, seismologists have developed a number of magnitude scales. Most of the scales in use in the Western world are mutually consistent to a sufficient extent that the term "Richter scale" is routinely used in reporting these numbers to the public. Other scales (and other ways of describing the size of earthquakes) are used in some non-Western countries, and by earthquake specialists. The press sometimes mistakenly reports such values as "Richter magnitude", and this has given rise to public confusion.
Earthquake effects are described in terms of Intensity, a scale which attempts to quantify the severity of shaking at a given location. A number of intensity scales are in use, and there is a significant degree of consistency amongst them. The best known is the Mercalli (or Modified Mercalli, MM) scale, but the more consistent and analytical European Macroseismic Scale (EMS) is now increasingly widely used.
Some earthquakes are caused by the movement of magma in volcanoes, and such quakes can be an early warning of volcanic eruptions. A rare few earthquakes have been associated with the build-up of large masses of water behind dams, such as the Kariba Dam in Zambia, Africa, and with the injection or extraction of fluids from the Earth's crust (Rocky Mountain Arsenal). Such earthquakes occur because the strength of the Earth's crust can be modified by fluid pressure. Finally, earthquakes (in a broad sense) can also result from the detonation of explosives. Thus Western scientists have been able to monitor, using the tools of seismology, nuclear weapons tests performed by governments that were not disclosing information on these tests along normal channels.
See also: list of earthquakes, seismology, geophysics, New Madrid Fault Zone, San Andreas Fault, elastic-rebound theory
External links
- The US National Earthquake Information Center
- The European Macroseismic Scale
- EQNET: Earthquake Information Network
- Geowall- An interesting 3d presentation system for looking at and understanding earthquake data.
- [1] Earthquakes in Iceland during the last 48 hours, updated automatically once every 5 minutes.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Earthquake."
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On May 22, 1960, an earthquake, measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale affected Southern Chile. It had its epicenter in Valdivia approx. 2000 km south of Santiago. The earthquake caused a tsunami which ran through the Pacific Ocean, and did devastate Hilo, Hawaii, 10000km from the epicenter. The total number of casualties from the earthquake was estimated to be up to 3000.
External links
- http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/historic/chilean60.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Great Chilean Earthquake."
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The following is a list of major earthquakes:
Date Site Deaths Magnitude
in RichterComments 464 BC Sparta, Greece ? – Led to a helot uprising and strained relations with Athens, one of the factors that led to the Peloponnesian War 226 BC Rhodes, Greece ? – Destroyed Colossus of Rhodes and city of Kameiros 365 Cyrene, Libya ? – 526 - May 20 Antiochia, Syria 250,000 – 856 Corinth, Greece 45,000 – 1268 Cilicia, Asia Minor 60,000 – 1290 - September 27 Chihli, China 100,000 – 1556 - January 23 Shaanxi and Kansu, China 850,000 9.0 The most devastating earthquake in history 1667 - November 23 Caucaso and Shemakha, Italy 80,000 – 1692 - June 7 Port Royal, Jamaica 1,000-3,000 – Destroyed and submerged most of Port Royal; see that article for more. 1693 - January 11 Catania, Italy 60,000 – 1730 - December 30 Hokkaido, Japan 137,000 – 1737 - October 11 Calcutta, India 300,000 – 1755 - November 1 Lisbon, Portugal 60,000 8.0 mentioned by Voltaire in Candide See: 1755 Lisbon earthquake 1811-1812 - December 16--February 7 New Madrid, Missouri, United States hundreds 8.0 U.S. Geological Survey[1] 1822 - September 5 Echigo, Japan 30,000 – 1855 Wellington, New Zealand 1 8.2 1857 - January 9 Fort Tejon, California, USA 1 7.9 350 kilometers of the San Andreas Fault ruptured 1868 - August 13-15 Ecuador and Peru 40,000 – 1872 - March 26 Lone Pine, California,USA 27 7.6 See: 1872 Lone Pine earthquake 1887 - February 23 French Riviera 2,000 – 1887 - May 3 Sonora, Mexico 42 7.4 1905 - April 4 Kangra, India 370,000. 1906 - April 18 San Francisco, California, USA 7.9 See: San Francisco earthquake of 1906 1908 - December 27 Messina, Italy 86,926 7.5 1920 - December 16 Gansu, China 100,000 8.6 1923 - September 1 Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan 200,000 8.3 see Great Kanto Earthquake 1927 - May 22 Nan-Shan, China 200,000 8.3 1931 Managua, Nicaragua 1931 - February 3 Napier, New Zealand 258 7.9 see Napier earthquake
1932 - December 26 Kansu, China 70,000 7.6 1935 - May 31 Quetta, India 50,000 7.5 1948 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 86,926 7.5 1949 Ecuador 6,000 na 1953 - August 12 Kefalonia, Greece 476 7.3 Destroyed most of the island, major damage on Zante and Lefkas. 1958 - July 10 Alaskan Panhandle 5 7.9 Resulting landslide triggered largest-ever recorded water wave at Lituya Bay, Alaska. 1960 - February 29 Agadir, Morocco 15,000 6.7 Almost completely destroyed Agadir. 1960 - May 22 Chile 1,500 9.5 Known as the Great Chilean Earthquake; most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Tsunamis caused deaths as far away as Hawaii and Japan. 1964 Anchorage, Alaska, USA 125 9.2 Most powerful earthquake in U.S. history, known as the Good Friday Earthquake 1966 Tashkent, Uzbekistan - 1968 Sicily, Italy; Gibellina, Belice - 1970 - May 31 Northern Peru 66,794 7.7 1972 - December 23 Managua, Nicaragua 10,000 the city was almost completely destroyed 1976 - July 28 Tangshan, China 400,000 8.2 1977 - March 4 southern and eastern Europe 1,50 1980 - November 23 southern Italy 4,800 1985 - September 19 Mexico City, Mexico ~10,000 8.1 Devastated a significant part of the city. Worst disaster in Mexico City's history. The epicenter was located in the coasts of Michoacán. 1985 - September 20 Mexico City, Mexico hundreds 7.6 Second earthquake in two days; caused massive hysteria and more deaths 1986 - October 10 San Salvador, El Salvador ~1,500 7.5 1988 - December 7 North-Western Armenia 55,000 6.8 1989 - October 17 Loma Prieta (Santa Cruz) California 63 7.1 Caused the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland, California, and damage to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Largest quake on the San Andreas Fault since the 1906 San Francisco quake. See Loma Prieta earthquake. 1990 - June 20 North-Western Iran 50,000 7.7 1990 - July 16 Philippines 1600 7.7 1992 - March 13 Eastern Turkey ~540 6.8 1993 - September 29 Maharashtra, India 9,748 6.4
1994 - January 17 Northridge (Los Angeles), California, USA 57 6.7 Most financially damaging quake in US history. See: 1994 Northridge Earthquake
1995 - January 17 Kobe, Osaka, and Kyoto, Japan 5,477 7.2 called the Great Hanshin earthquake 1995 - May 28 Neftegorsk, Russia ~2,000 7.6 Killed 2/3rd of the town's population 1997 - May 10-11 Northern Iran 4,000 7.5 1998 - February 4-8 Takhar, Afghanistan 2,323 6.1 1998 - May 30 Afghanistan 4,700 6.9 1999 - August 17 Turkey 15,000 7.8 1999 - September 20 Taiwan 2,474 7.6 2000 - February 13 El Salvador 400 6.6 2001 - January 13 El Salvador 5,000 7.7 2001 - January 26 Gujarat, India 20,103 7.7 2001 - June 23 Southern Peru 10s; many old buildings 7.9 2002 - November 3 Central Alaska 0 7.9 Sparsely populated area; damage to structures/roads but no serious injuries 2003 - May 21 Algeria 2,000 6.8 2003 - August 22 South Island, New Zealand 0 7.1 2003 - September 25 Hokkaido, Japan ? 8.0 The Richter scale was adopted in 1935, and was used in the above table also about earlier earthquakes at a merely indicative title. Earthquakes' effects were once measured after the Mercalli scale, which regards the practical damages that a seismic event causes to infrastructures and houses, and a sort of comparison between the two scale is now in use, especially for ancient events.
External link
- USGS list of current earthquakes
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of earthquakes."
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At 10.47 AM on Tuesday February 3 1931 the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand was devasted by a massive earthquake. Centred near Napier it lasted two and a half minutes and was estimated to have measured about 7.9 on the Richter scale.Nearly all buildings in the central area were levelled and 162 people in the town were killed, as well as 96 in other parts of Hawke's Bay. The local landscape changed dramatically, with the coastal areas around Napier being lifted by around two metres. Some 4,000ha of sea-bed became dry land, where the airport, housing and industrial property developments now exist.
The death toll may have been much higher had the Royal Navy ship "Veronica" not been in port at the time. The Veronica's radio was used to broadcast news of the disaster to the outside world and to seek assistance. The sailors joined survivors to fight the fires, rescue trapped people and help give them medical treatment.
The earthquake prompted a thorough review of New Zealand building codes, which were found to be totally inadequate. Many buildings built during the 1930s and 1940s are heavily reinforced, although more recent research has developed other strenghening techniques. To this day there are few buildings in Hawke's Bay taller than five stories, and as most of Napier's rebuilding took place in the 1930s when Art Deco was fashionable, Napier achitecture is regarded today as being one of the finest examples of Art Deco anywhere.
- Also to add: civil defence, what happened to the rubble, Napier harbour boards, the city's largest new land owner after the earthquake.
External Links
- http://www.hb.co.nz/artdeco/earthquake.htm
- http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/NZDisasters/Napier.asp
- http://www.napieronline.co.nz/earthquake.shtml
- http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~dchamber/eq1931deaths.htm
- http://www.janeresture.com/newzealand_napier/
- http://www.ahuriri.co.nz/fr_history.htm
- http://www.allshookup.org/links/seislink.htm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Napier earthquake."
Synonyms: EarthquakeSynonyms: quake (n), seism (n), temblor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector. |
Revolution | Jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm. |
Violence | Turmoil; (disorder); ferment; (agitation); storm, tempest, rough weather; squall; (wind); earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | San Francisco was rattled by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake Tuesday (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) When the big earthquake hits, all them three states are going to be shoved right off that shelf there (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) That was no earthquake It's the Great Old One. (The Manitou; writing credit: Jon Cedar; William Girdler) It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides (Captain Corelli's Mandolin; writing credit: Shawn Slovo) Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla (Gojira; writing credit: Shuichi Nagahara; Lisa Tomei) | |
Lyrics | Talken about an earthquake on the Richter scale (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) | |
Clever | It is strange how an earthquake 4,000 miles away seems less of a catastrophe than the first scratch on your new car. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Earthquake (1974) Electric Earthquake (1942) The Earthquake Motor (1917) San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake (1906) The San Francisco Earthquake (1906) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Aftermath of earthquake, Mexico City. Credit: CDC. |  | Building shaker in the doorway of a building Used to determine earthquake engineering characteristics of buildings C&GS was the first organization to undertake engineering seismology studies Party of William D. Patterson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Ground shaker at Position "A" Used to determine earthquake engineering characteristics of buildings C&GS was the first organization to undertake engineering seismology studies Party of William D. Patterson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Camping in the shade in the desert Earthquake studies in Southern California Leveling and triangulation party of F. W. Hough. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Campground at San Bernardino Earthquake studies in Southern California Leveling and triangulation party of F. W. Hough. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The lightkeeper's camp at Station American Earthquake studies in Southern California Leveling and triangulation party of F. W. Hough. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Current buoys with lights, radar reflectors, and F.M. transceivers C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Current surveys conducted with hydrographic surveys Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Landslide scar at Hanning Bay C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Earthquake triggered landslide in Hanning Bay Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "A New Map of Earthquake Distribution", by Captain Nicholas Heck, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: The Geographical Review, Vol. XXV, 1935. Pp. 125-130. Heck noted for the first time that earthquakes were associated with the Mid- Atlantic Ridge in his accompanying paper. Heck first produced a world seismicity map showing the activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1932. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | U.S. Air Force aircrew personnel work to unload a C-17 "Globemaster III" aircraft's precious cargo of humanitarian earthquake relief supplies, after arriving at the international airport in Ahmedabad, India, on Feb. 3, 2001. Members of the 7th A. |
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| "Power of nature" by Tomas Cermak Commentary: "6 meter high Neotani-danso, "step" created by earthquake appr. 100 years ago." | "Boy selling bread" by William J. Ray Commentary: "I took this shot in Turkey outside a pre-fab housing development that had been erected after the area had been smashed by the earthquake of 99." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The world is too well instructed in, and too forward to allow of, this way of dissolving of governments, to need any more to be said of it; and there wants not much argument to prove, that where the society is dissolved, the government cannot remain; that being as impossible, as for the frame of an house to subsist when the materials of it are scattered and dissipated by a whirl-wind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an earthquake. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They rumbled along, putting a little earthquake in the ground, and the standing exhaust pipes sputtered blue smoke from the Diesel oil. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Ten million tons of rubble from the 9-21 earthquake has been stored at 15 temporary dump sites with open bids to be held by local government offices to contract out its reuse. (references) | |
Economic History | Armenia | World Bank Earthquake Rehabilitation Program. (references) |
Turkey | Additionally, 200,000 more units need to be built in the region devastated by the 1999 earthquake. (references) | |
Ecuador | A devastating earthquake in March 1987 interrupted oil exports and worsened the country's economic problems. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | The central bank attributed the higher deficit to the slowdown in the United States and increased imports for earthquake reconstruction. (references) |
EL SALVADOR | Standard and Poor's, which rated fewer countries, gave El Salvador a BB+/Stable/B rating on January 22, 2001, a week after the first earthquake. (references) | |
EL SALVADOR | The funds obtained from the sales of the 10-year, 8.6-percent interest rate bonds will be used to fund the government's budget and earthquake reconstruction. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, circa 730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always Klatch and the destruction one of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question. |
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| "Earthquake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.85% of the time. "Earthquake" is used about 434 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.85% | 416 | 13,620 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.61% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.61% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.92% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 434 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "earthquake": Earthquake alarm ♦ earthquake detector ♦ earthquake record ♦ earthquake stricken ♦ earthquake swarm ♦ earthquake victim ♦ earthquake wave ♦ maximum design earthquake ♦ safe shutdown earthquake ♦ submarine earthquake ♦ tectonic earthquake ♦ this is a pill to cure an earthquake. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "earthquake": earthquake-detecting, earthquake-hit, earthquake-prone, earthquake-proof, earthquake-related, earthquake-resistance, earthquake-resistant, earthquake-shock, earthquake-stricken. | |
Ending with "earthquake": pre-earthquake. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earthquake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aardtrilling, aardskudding, aardbewing. (various references) | |
Albanian | tërmet (quake, seism, temblor). (various references) | |
Arabic | هزة أرضية (quake, shake, tremor), زلزال (cataclysm, quake). (various references) | |
Basque | lurrikara. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сътресение (commotion, concussion, convulsion, jar, jolt, percussion, shake, shock), земетресение (quake, shake). (various references) | |
Chinese | 地震 . (various references) | |
Cornish | dorgrýs. (various references) | |
Czech | zemìtřesení (quake, seismism). (various references) | |
Danish | jordskælv (quake, seism). (various references) | |
Dutch | aardbeving (quake, seism). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | allpa chugchui. (various references) | |
Esperanto | tertremo. (various references) | |
Farsi | زمین لرزه , زلزله . (various references) | |
Finnish | maanjäristys (earth tremor). (various references) | |
French | tremblement de terre, séisme. (various references) | |
Frisian | ierdskodding. (various references) | |
German | Erdbeben (earthquakes, quake). (various references) | |
Greek | σεισμός (quake, seism). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רעידת אדמה (quake), רעש אדמה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | földrengés (seism, temblor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gempa bumi (quake), gempa. (various references) | |
Italian | terremoto (havoc, shake, terror, upheaval). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 地震 , アーケード街 (archaic smile, earth, earth color, Earth Day, ergonomics, ground, shopping arcade). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アースクェイク , じしん (attendant, benevolence, by oneself, core, courtier, magnetic needle, mercy, personally, self-confidence). (various references) | |
Korean | 지진 (seism, seismic, seismical). (various references) | |
Manx | craa-hallooin. (various references) | |
Maori | ruu. (various references) | |
Norwegian | jordskjelv. (various references) | |
Occitan | tèrratremol. (various references) | |
Papago | jewed u'ujig. (various references) | |
Papiamen | temblor. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earthquakeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | terremoto (seism, shake). (various references) | |
Romanian | seism (seism), cutremur de pãmânt, cutremur (convulsion, fright, shaking, shock, terror, thrilling). (various references) | |
Romany | phoov khelèl. (various references) | |
Russian | землетрясение (convulsion of nature, quake, seism, temblor). (various references) | |
Sepedi | tahiainyego. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zemljotres (temblor). (various references) | |
Spanish | terremoto (quake). (various references) | |
Swazi | ku-tamátama. (various references) | |
Swedish | jordbävning (earth-quake), skalv (quake). (various references) | |
Thai | แผ่นดินไหว (seism). (various references) | |
Turkish | zelzele (quake), yer sarsıntısı, kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), deprem (quake, shake). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яer titremesi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | землетрус (quake, seism), потрясіння (convulsion, shake, shock, tempest). (various references) | |
Welsh | daeargryn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | seismos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ostes, terraemotu, terraemotus, tremor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 16, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Afnw de seismoV egeneto megaV wste saleuqhnai ta qemelia tou desmwthriou anewcqhsan te paracrhma ai qurai pasai kai pantwn ta desma aneqh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Subito vero terraemotus factus est magnus ita ut moverentur fundamenta carceris et aperta sunt statim ostia omnia et universorum vincula soluta sunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And sudenli a greet erthe mouyng was maad, so that the foundementis of the prisoun weren moued. And anoon alle the doris weren openyd, and the boondis of alle weren lousid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sodenly ther was a greate erth quake so that ye fonndacion of the preson was shaken and by and by all the dores opened and every mannes bondes were lowsed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 16, Verse 26 |
| Albanian | Befas u bë një tërmet i madh, saqë u tundën themelet e burgut; dhe në atë çast u hapën të gjitha dyert dhe të gjithëve iu zgjidhën prangat. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa kalit miabut ang usa ka makusog nga linog, nga tungod niana nauyog ang mga patukoranan sa bilanggoan; ug dihadiha naabli ang tanang pultahan ug nangatangtang ang mga talikala sa matag-usa. |
| Croatian | Odjednom nasta potres velik te se poljuljaše temelji zatvora, umah se otvoriše sva vrata, i svima spadoše okovi. |
| Danish | Men pludseligt kom der et stort Jordskælv, så at Fængselets Grundvolde rystede, og straks åbnedes alle Dørene, og alles Lænker løstes. |
| Dutch | En er geschiedde snellijk een grote aardbeving, alzo dat de fundamenten des kerkers bewogen werden; en terstond werden al de deuren geopend, en de banden van allen werden los. |
| Finnish | Silloin tapahtui yhtäkkiä suuri maanjäristys, niin että vankilan perustukset järkkyivät, ja samassa kaikki ovet aukenivat, ja kaikkien kahleet irtautuivat. |
| French | Tout à coup il se fit un grand tremblement de terre, en sorte que les fondements de la prison furent ébranlés; au même instant, toutes les portes s`ouvrirent, et les liens de tous les prisonniers furent rompus. |
| German | Schnell aber ward ein großes Erdbeben, also daß sich bewegten die Grundfesten des Gefängnisses. Und von Stund an wurden alle Türen aufgetan und aller Bande los. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tiba-tiba terjadi gempa bumi yang hebat sekali, sampai pondasi penjara itu pun turut bergoncang. Semua pintu penjara terbuka dan rantai-rantai yang membelenggu semua orang tahanan pun terlepas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dengan sekonyong-konyong timbullah suatu gempa bumi yang besar sehingga berguncang kaki tembok penjara itu. Dengan seketika itu juga terbukalah segala pintu, dan belenggu sekalian orang itu pun terlucutlah. |
| Italian | D'improvviso venne un terremoto così forte che furono scosse le fondamenta della prigione; subito tutte le porte si aprirono e si sciolsero le catene di tutti. |
| Latvian | Piepeði notika liela zemestrîce, tâ ka cietuma pamati sakustçjâs; un tûdaï visas durvis atvçrâs, un visu vaþas atraisîjâs. |
| Maori | Na ka pa whakarere he ru nui, i ngarue ai nga turanga o te whare herehere: a puare tonu atu nga tatau katoa, whakakorokoroa ana nga herenga o nga tangata katoa. |
| Norwegian | Da kom det med ett et sterkt jordskjelv, så fengslets grunnvoller rystet, og straks sprang alle dører op, og alles lenker løstes. |
| Portuguese | De repente houve um tão grande terremoto que foram abalados os alicerces do cárcere, e logo se abriram todas as portas e foram soltos os grilhões de todos. |
| Rumanian | Deodatq, s`a fqcut un mare cutremur de pqmknt, awa cq s`au clqtinat temeliile temniyei. Kndatq, s`au deschis toate uwile, wi s`au deslegat legqturile fiecqruia. |
| Russian | чДТХЗ УДЕМБМПУШ ЧЕМЙЛПЕ ЪЕНМЕФТСУЕОЙЕ, ФБЛ ЮФП РПЛПМЕВБМПУШ ПУОПЧБОЙЕ ФЕНОЙГЩ; ФПФЮБУ ПФЧПТЙМЙУШ ЧУЕ ДЧЕТЙ, Й Х ЧУЕИ ХЪЩ ПУМБВЕМЙ. |
| Shuar | Tu pujuiniai aya aneachma ti kakantar uurkamiayi. Tura sepusha muchitramiayi. Túrunamtai Sepú Wáitirisha Ashí urantrarmiayi. Tura aents jirujai enkekar jinkiamusha mash atiniakarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces, de repente sobrevino un fuerte terremoto, de manera que los cimientos de la cárcel fueron sacudidos. Al instante, todas las puertas se abrieron, y las cadenas de todos se soltaron. |
| Swahili | Ghafla, kulitokea mtetemeko mkuu wa ardhi ambao uliitikisa misingi ya gereza. Mara, milango yote ikafunguka na minyororo iliyowafunga hao wafungwa ikaachana. |
| Swedish | Då kom plötsligt en stark jordstöt, så att fängelsets grundvalar skakades; och i detsamma öppnades alla dörrar, och allas bojor löstes. |
| Uma | Nto'u toe, muu-mule' ria ncorobaa linu bohe, alaa-na parawatu tarungku' toe molengo. Kaliliu mobea hawe'ea wobo', pai' mobongka moto-mi rante to rahoo' -raka hawe'ea to ratarungku'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "earthquake": earthquakes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "earthquake": microearthquake. (additional references) | |
Words containing "earthquake": microearthquakes. (additional references) | |
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"Earthquake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arthquake, earthguake, earthqake, earthquaked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "earthquake" (pronounced er"thkwā'k) |
| 3 | -w ā' k | kittiwake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-k-q-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: aureate, hektare, hetaera. | |
-4 letters: aerate, aether, aurate, equate, eureka, heater, hereat, karate, quaere, quaker, quarte, quatre, reheat, retake, takahe. | |
-5 letters: aquae, areae, arete, arhat, aurae, earth, eater, ether, hater, haute, heart, karat, kraut, kurta, quake, quare, quark, quart, quate, queer, rakee, rathe, reata, taker, there, three, urate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-k-q-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: earthquakes. | |
+5 letters: microearthquake. | |
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