Earthquake

Noun

 * 1) A shaking of the surface of a planet, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

Synonyms

 * quake

Verbs for Earthquake
replenish—; return to—; scatter over—; scorch—; scour—; sink into—; swoop to—; till—; tramp over—; trample—; veil—; wrestle with—; —abounds with; —blooms —flowers; —heaves; —moulders; —nourishes; —quakes; —revolves; —sustains; — swallows up ; —teems; —throbs; —trembles; —whirls; —renews.

Thesaurus
apoplexy, breakup, cataclysm, climax, convulsion, diastrophism, disaster, fit, overthrow, paroxysm, quake, quaker, shake, shock, spasm, stroke, temblor, tidal wave, tremor, tsunami, upheaval

Etymology
From.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ardbewing
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: tierratremo, terrentrín
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: zəlzələ
 * Basque: lurrikara
 * Belarusian: землятрус
 * Bengali: ভূমিকম্প
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: terratrèmol
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: maavärin
 * Faroese: Jarðskjálvti
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: terremoto, terramoto, sismo
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:, ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: crith talún
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: (4th declension)
 * Latvian: zemestrīce
 * Lithuanian: žemės drebėjimas
 * Luxembourgish: Äerdbiewen
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: terremot
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: tèrratrem, tèrratremol
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: crith-thalmhainn
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zemetrasenie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: tetemeko (noun 5/6)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lindol
 * Tajik: заминларза
 * Telugu: భూకంపం (bhookampam)
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: guria
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: زلزلہ
 * Vietnamese: địa chấn, động đất
 * Walloon: tronnmint d' tere
 * Welsh: daeargryn
 * Yiddish: ערטקווייק

Related terms

 * moonquake
 * seaquake
 * starquake