earthquake 
earth·quake (-kwāk′)
noun
a shaking or trembling of the crust of the earth, caused by underground volcanic forces or by breaking and shifting of rock beneath the surface
earthquake
n.
Converse of object
- withstand: The design can improved until the house is best able to withstand earthquakes.
- predict: Meet the man who may have made a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes, and hear compelling stories from survivors and rescuers.
Converse of subject
- devastate: Even after being devastated by an earthquake and a bomb in the early 20th century, it is still is an elegant architectural sight.
- destroy: The intention is to fund a project which will help to rebuild communities destroyed by the earthquake.
Adjective modifier
- devastating: His opening statement dealt with Britain's response to the crisis in south Asia following the devastating earthquake.
- Indonesian: The Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami: : The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused widespread devastation and many deaths.
- volcanic: We have gathered a data file of about 200 low frequency volcanic earthquakes at Torfajökull during the years 1996 to 2001.
- massive: On December 26th 2004 a massive earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the west coast of Indonesia.
- Asian: Update on the SE Asian earthquake: from the USGS website.
- Algerian: Chris has also deployed his other SAR dog Gemma to the Turkish earthquake which took place in 1999 and the Algerian Earthquake of 2003.
Modifies a noun
- survivor: Claw hammers, crow bars, saws, dust pans and other tools provided by Mercy Corps are helping earthquake survivors implement clean-up plans.
- hazard: Earthquake hazard maps like this are more often expressed in terms of ground acceleration.
- epicenter: The point at the surface directly above the focus is called the earthquake epicenter.
- swarm: Earthquake swarms are relatively rare in the UK, but not unknown.
- epicenter: The geographic point directly above the focus is called the earthquake epicenter.
- actuator: The Stored Angular Momentum ( SAM ) earthquake actuator was modified to accommodate a self-contained swinging platform.
Noun used with modifier
- Gujarat: He spearheaded a drive which raised £ 10,000 in a night for victims of the Gujarat earthquake.
- low-frequency: It is clear that seismic parameters, including the intermittency are very important in investigating the source of the low-frequency earthquakes.
- tsunami: Thu 6th Jan 2005: Tsunami Earthquake touches all of us in Brent - Teather.
Preposition: of
- magnitude: This fault is known to have produced earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 7.5 in the past.
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?
One could forgive the fiend for becoming a torrent, but to become an earthquake was really too much.
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
'It's snowing still,'said Eeyore gloomily. 'So it is.' 'And freezing.' 'Is it?' 'Yes,'said Eeyore.'However,' he said, brightening up a little,'we haven't had an earthquake lately.'
And, behold, the L passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the L; but the L was not in the wind: and after thewind anearthquake; butthe L wasnot inthe earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the L was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling backöthat's an earthquake.
I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished earth.
With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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