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US
/ˈɝθˌkweɪk/
]
[ UK /ˈɜːθkweɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˈɜːθkweɪk/ ]
NOUN
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a disturbance that is extremely disruptive
selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees - shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
How To Use earthquake In A Sentence
- Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
- Carried by B-52 bombers, the "bunker busters" used five parachutes to land softly on their targets before detonating a nine megaton explosion, in effect simulating an earthquake.
- Critics fear the environmental impact and possible contamination of groundwater as well as the risk of earthquakes. Times, Sunday Times
- The earthquake highlighted the vulnerability of elevated highways.
- These details are important for geodynamical modeling, which may one day predict complex geological processes such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- There is an earthquake in Leghorn: Flaubert doesn't cry out in sympathy.
- The bridge broke down in last earthquake.
- The duke and duchess were caught up in a minor earthquake in Assam last night. Times, Sunday Times
- They've set up a fund for victims of the earthquake.
- The building shook like an earthquake.