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sea-quake, seaquake
[after earthquake.]
A convulsion or sudden agitation of the sea from a submarine eruption or earthquake.
1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 333 This σεισµὸς..is usually understood of an earth-quake, but here 'tis a sea⁓quake. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. 53 A violent agitation, or heaving, of the sea... This agitation..may be called, for the sake of perspicuity, a seaquake; and this also is produced by volcanoes. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 273 The phenomenon called a mare moto or seaquake, was heaving the waters of the harbour. 1889Hickson Nat. N. Celebes iii. 45 This was accompanied by a terrible seaquake. |