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Words related to earthquake

Related / Similar Words: quake, temblor, seism

Definition:

shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity;

a disturbance that is extremely disruptive; "selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees";

Hyponyms: shock, seismic disturbance, tremor, earth tremor, microseism, seaquake, submarine earthquake

Derivational Morphology: tremor, quake

Language Translations:
Bosnian: zemljotres		Breton: kren-douar
Catalan: terratrèmol		Chinese: 地震
Croatian: potres		Dutch: aardbeving
Esperanto: tertremo		Estonian: maavärin
Finnish: maanjäristys		French: tremblement de terre
German: Erdbeben		Greek: σεισμός
Indonesian: Gempa bumi		Italian: terremoto
Japanese: 地震		Latvian: zemestrīce
Lithuanian: žemės drebėjimas		Maltese: terremot
Norwegian: jordskjelv		Polish: trzęsienie ziemi
Portuguese: terramoto		Romanian: cutremur
Russian: землетрясение		Spanish: terremoto
Swahili: tetemeko		Telugu: భూకంపం

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