earthquake
(ɜːʳθkweɪk )
Word forms: earthquakes
countable noun B2
An earthquake is a shaking of the ground caused by movement of the Earth's crust.
The earthquake was the fifth most powerful recorded in the last century.
Synonyms: earth tremor, quake [informal], tremor, seism
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Collocations:
earthquake engineering earthquake fault earthquake hits earthquake insurance earthquake occurs earthquake prediction earthquake relief earthquake strikes earthquake survivor earthquake tremor earthquake warning earthquake zone experience an earthquake huge earthquake large earthquake major earthquake massive earthquake minor earthquake powerful earthquake predict an earthquake survive an earthquake trigger an earthquake undersea earthquake underwater earthquake withstand an earthquake
Modules include the design of bridges, geotechnical earthquake engineering and the seismic design of concrete and steel structures.
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The syllabus includes a comprehensive set of topics related to structural engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, soil dynamics and advanced numerical techniques.
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It also means, exploring architecture and its possibilities, through the principles of earthquake engineering.
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Due to its earthquake engineering, the airport emerged unscathed, mostly due to the use of sliding joints.
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Around this time in his career, he became involved in earthquake engineering through development of building codes for earthquake prone areas.
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Construction of the complex continued intermittently, with partial demolition and reconstruction after additional contamination and an earthquake fault were found.
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The alignment of the local hills and the earthquake fault creates a sort of wind tunnel effect on the lake during the winter months.
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They are also concerned about the seismic safety of the plant given the recent discovery of a new earthquake fault nearby.
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The work was the subject of several lawsuits from neighborhood and environmental groups, who were concerned about such extensive construction on top of a major earthquake fault.
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The siting of significant collections at the water's edge on reclaimed land next to one of the world's most active earthquake fault lines has resulted in concern by some people.
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When an earthquake hits, the clay undergoes liquefaction.
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The school has an evacuation drill when a real earthquake hits.
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Midway up the lift hill, an earthquake hits.
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An earthquake hits the city, toppling many buildings and structures.
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An earthquake hits the island and it begins to sink into the ocean.
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Sixty-four percent of respondents believe a massive earthquake will hit in three to five years; but only one in four has earthquake insurance.
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This includes specialized forms of insurance such as fire insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, home insurance, or boiler insurance.
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Earthquake insurance policies generally feature a high deductible.
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Homeowners may buy earthquake insurance from an insurance company as an optional rider to a fire insurance policy.
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Earthquake insurance can provide building owners with financial protection against losses resulting from earthquakes.
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They arrive just as the massive earthquake occurs.
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When the next major earthquake occurs on the fault, damage will be catastrophic.
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When an earthquake occurs, seismic waves radiate out spherically from the earthquake's focus.
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When a strong earthquake occurs, it will be difficult to stand and noticed by people driving motor cars.
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Later, they find a mall, and another earthquake occurs.
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When the theory of plate tectonics gained ground in the 1960s, many scientists thought that earthquake prediction was only a matter of time.
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This was the first successful earthquake prediction in history.
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To be meaningful, an earthquake prediction must be properly qualified.
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His team of researchers have used new algorithmic methods for earthquake prediction.
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Some researchers have investigated changes in groundwater radon concentrations for earthquake prediction.
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The series was expected to raise $10 million for the earthquake relief.
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Since then, they have been working to collect money and supplies for earthquake relief.
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The main monument tells the heroic stories of earthquake relief.
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Here you can blast off on a rocket ride across the solar system, or hang on for life as an earthquake strikes and turns everything around you to rubble.
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It can pick up waves of energy released from earthquakes and, even more intriguingly, these disturbances can sometimes be recorded before an earthquake strikes.
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They will realise that pupils who haven't grasped their 12 times table by nine can still learn to love numbers and throw away the geography worksheets when an earthquake strikes.
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Life has been blissful until one day, an earthquake strikes the school and everything changes.
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Not long after, a massive earthquake strikes and further damages the city.
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She speaks to firefighters, soldiers, and earthquake survivors who run back into the rubble to save others.
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But with all this commercial activity, how much money actually goes to help the famine victims or earthquake survivors?
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Some earthquake survivors died in the shelters or in the process of evacuation.
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But locals fear the impact on wildlife, tourism and traffic, and the risk of earthquake tremors.
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When earthquake tremors hit solid rock, the rock simply shakes.
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A rubber balloon was used for the earthquake tremors at the temple.
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Built to withstand typhoon winds and earthquake tremors, its design incorporates many engineering innovations and has won numerous international awards.
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This includes the ability to create earthquake tremors.
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The signs will feature pictures of buildings being ripped apart and will have 'earthquake warning' across them in bright red capital letters.
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In the latter, the explosions set off earthquake warning systems.
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Survey pegs, magnetometers and seismograph equipment for early earthquake warnings via radio have also been installed on the crater walls.
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About 3,400 buildings were completely destroyed and 200 fires were raging in the earthquake zone.
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To see the pandas - eight of them recently airlifted from the earthquake zone - you need only follow the crowds.
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In an earthquake zone you build carefully, over the years, so that when the ground shakes people aren't hurt.
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The announcement followed growing international concern over the safety of nuclear installations in the earthquake zone.
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I told myself that the mobile network in the earthquake zone must be down.
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The program allows people from all over the globe who experience an earthquake to report it online immediately.
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If the area did not normally experience earthquakes, the effect was even more marked.
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The area has been experiencing earthquakes, and these are a warning sign that another, separate eruption could be on the way.
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You're not experiencing an earthquake.
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Finding shelter in a side room, they experience earthquakes through the night.
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It was the sharpest drop since the huge earthquake and subsequent tsunami five years ago, when supply lines were broken for component manufacturers in the country's northeast.
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The old village was abandoned because of a huge earthquake that made the nearby hills to fall.
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The drill was done to mimic the situation of a reactor cooling failure after a huge earthquake.
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The research shows that volcanoes erupt up to four times more often after a large earthquake than they would without the seismic agitation.
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Some of this region was already devastated by a large earthquake a year ago.
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In a globalised economy, no incident occurs in isolation, and a single geophysical event such as a large earthquake, although confined physically, can cause widespread economic damage.
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On that date, it was knocked off its supports by a large earthquake.
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A large earthquake swarm first brought attention to it in 1952.
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In the preceding weeks there had been many small shocks, and a local amateur with homemade equipment had been predicting a major earthquake.
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If this were the aftermath of a major earthquake, the number of fatalities would be shocking.
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Crises have the potential to worsen and expand, like the fires and aftershocks that follow a major earthquake.
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After a major earthquake struck in 1880, the cathedral was completely rebuilt.
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It was the third major earthquake in the region in just over 100 years.
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Eventually, the locking of the fault will break, and a massive earthquake will strike.
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Sixty-four percent of respondents believe a massive earthquake will hit in three to five years; but only one in four has earthquake insurance.
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Before the accident — triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami — the country relied on nuclear power for one third of its energy.
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In 1905 there was a massive earthquake which damaged the masjid and its dome.
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When the plate finally slips, it releases 500 years of stored energy in a massive earthquake.
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Aftershocks continued to be felt for weeks after the event and minor earthquake activity that still continues in the area today may be a continuation of aftershocks.
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Opponents say that fracking causes disruption and damage to the environment, including minor earthquakes and the risk of water pollution.
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However, the facility continued to be largely unused for many years, and by 2011 it had fallen into disrepair, as well as incurring minor earthquake damage in 2001.
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Usually if there are minor earthquakes occurring people assume that will reduce the strain.
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There are legitimate fears about fracking: the pollution of groundwater, the escape of methane, the pressure on water resources and the risk of minor earthquakes.
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It was the most powerful earthquake to strike the area in several years.
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The country had been struck by a powerful earthquake the year before.
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You'd need the world's most powerful earthquake to strike this place.
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Seismologists issued a warning that there was a 50 per cent chance of a second equally powerful earthquake striking up to several weeks after the first.
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The sixth most powerful earthquake of the year, it registered a magnitude of 7.5 and was a megathrust earthquake.
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The scientists are not being accused of failing to predict the earthquake.
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The seismologists were charged not with failing to predict the earthquake but for wrongly reassuring the public about the risk.
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The case against the scientists was not that they failed to predict an earthquake but that the assurances offered to the public were given without a basis in evidence.
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There have been no indications found that could have been used to predict this earthquake.
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He managed to successfully predict an earthquake that struck the capital that year.
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She must survive an earthquake.
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It only just survived an earthquake in 1884.
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Surviving an earthquake was not in the job description.
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As the years passed, historians and journalists sought out the dwindling band of those who had survived the earthquake.
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Remarkably, they survived an earthquake while new concrete buildings were flattened.
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Was the mud volcano due to the same seismic event that triggered the earthquake?
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She tries stealing the grail and triggers an earthquake.
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The new planet appears and triggers an earthquake that buries their cars in a landslide.
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He activates the tachyon amplifier, triggering an earthquake that opens a time warp into which the raft falls.
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A virus, a fire, an undersea earthquake - what happens when it all goes dark?
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The massive undersea earthquake and ensuing 15-metre-high tsunami had devastated the plant, damaging cooling systems and sending half the reactors into meltdown.
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A single disturbance, such as an undersea earthquake, volcano or meteor strike would have triggered gas-saturated deep waters.
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It was caused by a 6.7 magnitude undersea earthquake.
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It was triggered by undersea earthquakes - sparking fears another tsunami could happen in parts of the ocean with active volcanoes in them.
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An underwater earthquake may have released poisonous gases that turned the waters red.
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A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from his slumber.
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Such explosive events are thought to occur naturally, for example when methane hydrate deposits are disturbed by underwater earthquakes.
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An underwater earthquake interrupts their plans.
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His research focuses on tectonic plates, underwater earthquakes, and volcanoes.
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The city, which will have 150 bridges and cover more than 7,000 acres, will be built to withstand an earthquake up to 9.0 in magnitude.
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The house you build needs to be able to withstand an earthquake.
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In general, reinforced concrete-framed homes, built after the 1979 earthquake, were better able to withstand the earthquake.
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Very few buildings had been built to withstand an earthquake, and the city lies on unstable alluvial soil.
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The plant has been designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.5.
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Translations:
Chinese: 地震
Japanese: 地震
- empty building
- empty can
- empty cartridges
- empty-chair
- empty chamber
- empty classroom
- empty coffers
- empty container
- empty corridor
- empty crate
- empty cupboard
- empty desert
- empty desk
- empty expanse
- empty feeling
- empty gesture
- empty glass
- empty-handed
- empty-headed
- empty house
- empty promises
- empty rhetoric
- empty road
- empty room
- empty seat