Earthquake is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EARTHQUAKE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a quaking or shaking of the earth
• a great upheaval
• A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.
• 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
• a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
ADJECTIVE:
• Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a shaking or trembling of the earth that is volcanic or tectonic in origin

Words related to EARTHQUAKE

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Words that contain EARTHQUAKE

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How to use EARTHQUAKE in a sentence

• The effects of the earthquake were still visible, as little had been done towards repairing the numerous rents and cracks in the floor, and in the walls.
• A man may escape from an earthquake to be strangled by a hair.
• But the strangeness of some of the tricks which the earthquake shocks play is hardly to be explained, even by scientific men.
• Then, after a short and terrible earthquake, a bright cloud suddenly covered the whole mountain.
• The lake had risen with the earthquake, had bubbled furiously, and had then melted away into the earth and been lost.
• She knew no more what had disturbed her than in times of earthquake the sea water knows the cause of its unwonted surging.
• Thank God she was safe up to that time, but I do not think the earthquake was then over.
• The place looks as though it had been visited simultaneously by the San Francisco earthquake, the Baltimore fire, and the Johnstown flood.
• From this moment Morgan retired definitely to the top of the tower, and Owen became too nervous to lay the necessary amount of paint on the Earthquake at Lisbon.
• Washington was visited by a succession of earthquake shocks early this afternoon, which, in varying force, were felt throughout the United States and Europe.
• But after the earthquake and all the rest of the fuss I dug it out and gave it to Mr.
• The Portuguese had not yet recovered from the effects of the earthquake which, in 1756, had reduced a third part of Lisbon to a ruinous heap.
• In this cold wilderness many of the natives found an icy grave, and during their passage a terrible earthquake shook the mountains, the earth in one place being rent asunder.
• At Saint-Lange there are volcanic depths whence come lurid gleams of light and earthquake shocks to shake the fragile edifices of laws not based on nature.
• For three hours, as we read, there was darkness over all the land, followed immediately, after the death of Jesus, by a great earthquake.
• The roar, the jar, and the vibration were like that of a miniature earthquake.
• It was, however, so badly knocked about by the earthquake of 1897 that it was considered unsafe, and would have had to be pulled down and rebuilt, but, rather than do this, Mr.
• He knew not of angels, and it was an earthquake that caused the prison doors to open and not an angel.
• Some time in past ages an earthquake had produced a fault at this point, so that beyond the spot where I stood the strata had slipped down a matter of twenty feet.
• So then a long sauce is not over eaten and so much is there that there is no earthquake.
• Similar phenomena were experienced in other localities, and the bulk of the disaster, so far as the earthquake was concerned, was confined to the low-lying region above described.
• A peculiar feature of the effect of the earthquake on structures of this kind is reported in the case of the Fairmount Hotel, a fourteen-story structure.
• This is that there is one place within pistol shot of San Francisco that the earthquake did not touch, that did not lose a chimney or feel a tremor.
• The vibrations which carry the tidings of the earthquake spread through the rocks on the surface, from the centre of the disturbance, in gradually enlarging circles.

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