a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1793 (MED) Þe eorþe-quakynge was ymad wiþ gret soun.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 55 (MED) Whan the Iewes hadden made the temple com an erthequakeng & cast it doun.

1583 T. Day Wonderfull Straunge Sightes sig. 3^v The Lorde hath forwarned vs..by his creatures, and miraculous tokens, strange monsters, blazing commets, vnwonted enundations of waters, straunge fishes, perrillous warres, earthquakings, and last of all, firye constellations.

1697 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens II. 162 The Enoch and Elias Spirit are to arise upon some, who will mutually together agree to break through this vile Principle; though it be with Mountains rending, and with Rocks breaking, and Earth quakings.

a1855 E. Stuart-Wortley Sweet South (1856) I. xix. 311 There were many descriptions of this convulsion of the earth near the Castillo de Oreja,..this earthquaking without shaking.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 31/2 The constant earthquaking has ceased.

1925 C. Van Vechten Firecrackers ix. 122 There had been, she was fully aware, underground rumblings in their latest conversation which foretold in hollow tones the advent of emotional earthquakings.

1995 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 5 Sept. 36 Such was the earth-quaking that resulted, the Ferris wheel riders at Navy Pier probably were wondering about the magic fingers in their seats.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H4 Iove shaking his earthquaking haire.

1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. B1^v A Race..after the Roman fashion:..in their thundring velocity, lightning-like violence, and earth-quaking, whorrying.

1780 tr. New Treasure Knowl. 168 He perceived the diminutive Knight, who, having been awakened by the heavy footstep of the earth-quaking giant, had buried himself into the moss.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xlii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 43 The earthquaking cataracts which shiver Their snow-like waters into golden air.

1881 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 570 But here amid earthquaking shocks Whirlwinds rave around the rocks.

1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 169/1 A smash-up of the Van Sweringens in the crucial Fall of 1930 would have been earthquaking in Wall Street and Washington.

1994 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bulletin (Nexis) 21 Feb. 1 b These ancient fault lines occasionally give way with an earthquaking rumble.

1782 T. Stratford 1st Bk. Fontenoy 32 E'en Western India hears, and from her vast Earthquaking Andes o'er the bellowing main Rebounds throughout the globe the loud alarm.

1881 Athenæum 27 Aug. That..earth-quaking spot which was selected by the Spanish leader for the site of his capital (Lima).

1887 Illustr. London News 19 Mar. 306/3 I have travelled a good deal in earthquaking lands.

1921 Times 30 Dec. 5/5 Japan was an earthquaking country.