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earthquake
/ˈɝθkweɪk/
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What does earthquake mean?
noun
- A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
- Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
- (figuratively) A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
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verb
- To undergo an earthquake.
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IPA pronunciation
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There must have been a slight sensation, as of earthquake, surely, in the Vatican, when the first Italian railroad was thrown open.
The island itself as plainly showed the overwhelming power of the earthquake, as the beach did that of the consequent great wave.
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But the strangeness of some of the tricks which the earthquake shocks play is hardly to be explained, even by scientific men.
While writing this, Nietzsche is supposed to have been thinking of the island of Ischia which was ultimately destroyed by an earthquake.
It came up with an earthquake, and "a water-spout sixty feet high and eight hundred yards in circumference rising from the sea."