seaquaken.
A convulsion or sudden agitation of the sea from a submarine eruption or earthquake.
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seaquake1680
water wave1851
tidal wave1878
tsunami1897
seismic sea-wave1905
1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 333 This σεισμὸς..is usually understood of an earth-quake, but here 'tis a sea~quake.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 121 A violent agitation, or heaving of the sea... This agitation..may be called, for the sake of perspicuity, a sea-quake; and this, also, is produced by volcanoes.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 273 The phenomenon called a mare moto or seaquake, was heaving the waters of the harbour.
1889 S. J. Hickson Naturalist in N. Celebes iii. 45 This was accompanied by a terrible seaquake.
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