SEISMIC GAP

  

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SEISMIC GAP

Specialty Definition: SEISMIC GAP

DomainDefinition

Geological

A section of a fault that has produced earthquakes in the past but is now quiet. For some seismic gaps, no earthquakes have been observed historically, but it is believed that the fault segment is capable of producing earthquakes on some other basis, such as plate-motion information or strain measurements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SEISMIC GAP

Language Translations for "SEISMIC GAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

seismisk hul. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

seismische discontinuiteit. (various references)

   

French

  

lacune sismique. (various references)

   

German

  

seismische Lücke. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σεισμικό κενό. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lacuna sismica. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eismicsay apgay

   

Spanish

  

vacío sísmico. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SEISMIC GAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-m-p-s-s"

-2 letters: episcias, escapism, mispages, misspace, scampies.

-3 letters: ageisms, camises, episcia, gipsies, impasse, magpies, mispage, pigmies, seismic.

-4 letters: ageism, agisms, amices, apices, aspics, camise, images, magics, magpie, megass, passim, saices, scampi, scamps, scapes, sepias, sigmas, spaces, spicae, spicas, spices.

-5 letters: acmes, aegis, agism, amice, amici, amies, amiss, apses, apsis, aspic, aspis, cages, cames, campi, camps, capes.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-m-p-s-s"
 

+3 letters: seismographic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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