Definitions
shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
Word origin
From Middle English erthequake, corresponding to earth + quake. Displaced Middle English eorð byfung (“earthquake”) from Old English eorþbeofung (literally “earth shaking”).
Used in a sentence
“Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.”
“Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.”
“The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues
01“Seismic event”10 letters
02“Natural ground shaker”10 letters
03“Seismic ground movement”10 letters
04“Seismic ground shake”10 letters
05“Seismic shaking event”10 letters
06“Shaking from below ground”10 letters
07“Shaking ground event”10 letters
08“Sudden ground shaking”10 letters
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