(n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.
(a.) Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(2) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
(3) The contrast between the two plans is best witnessed from the small park between the Trade Centre and the 1930s National Assembly, one of the few survivors of the earthquake.
(4) Another sector of the population (11%), previously symptomatic, reported remission after the earthquakes.
(5) Tepco, meanwhile, has secured 2tn yen in loans to rebuild its power supply networks, which was badly damaged in the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
(6) Future ice loss and bending of the crust due to rising sea levels have the potential ultimately to raise levels of both earthquake and volcanic activity.
(7) Weightman has been asked by the energy and climate change secretary, Chris Huhne, to examine the lessons that could be learned from the Japanese accident, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami last month.
(8) Nepal earthquake: thousands in need of shelter in country little able to cope Read more “There are several hundred British nationals in Nepal at this time of year and we expect that almost certainly some will have been caught up in the earthquakes,” Hammond said.
(9) The same plant was seriously damaged by an earthquake in 2007, but the owners tried to conceal a radiation leak.
(10) The Bank of Japan has brought forward its next monetary policy decision following the earthquake that hit the country on Friday.
(11) The US Geological Survey said it was the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s and one of the biggest recorded in the world.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cows stranded on ‘island’ after New Zealand earthquake – aerial video Key said the quake was the most significant he could remember feeling in Wellington and that his team was clearing up damage in his own offices.
(13) Bishop is also visiting a country that is still enduring the ongoing trauma associated with the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami and the worst nuclear disaster of modern times – a disaster that, three years on, has left the region comprised of ghost towns and shattered lives.
(14) "The much larger than initially expected economic and fiscal costs of the 11 March earthquake are magnifying the adverse effects imparted by the global financial crisis from which Japan's economy has not completely recovered," Moody's said.
(15) It feels like most people who are climbing Everest are having a film crew follow them.” Sherpa review – peril in the shadow of Everest Read more Since April’s earthquake, the Nepalese government have limited access to permits to experienced climbers, hoping that will address concerns about safety and overcrowding.
(16) Analysis of the victims of the earthquake in Armenia made it possible to distinguish a form of trauma, unique in biomechanics and pathogenesis, which was not described earlier, namely, prolonged compression of the head (PCH).
(17) In the present study an assessment of the psychiatric morbidity was carried out in the city of Kalamata, Greece, two weeks after the earthquake in September, 1986.
(18) A graphical guide to Nepal's earthquake Read more Ram Sharan Mahat, the Nepalese finance minister, said at least $2bn (£1.3bn) would be needed to rebuild homes, hospitals, government offices and historic buildings.
(19) The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal early on Tuesday has complicated relief and aid efforts following the earlier disaster, which is so far estimated to have claimed more than 8,000 lives.
(20) Acute urticaria was seen in a patient following the October 1987 earthquake in Los Angeles, California.
Seismic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Seismal
Example Sentences:
(1) Arriving at seismic monitoring sites that were already built was a bit odd, but they were incredible - far better than anything I could have built."
(2) These findings should prove useful in developing seismic safety codes.
(3) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
(4) The Leonard Cheshire Disability charity said “a seismic shift in people’s attitude” was needed.
(5) But Shell's exploration activity in the Beaufort Sea was halted when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that seismic testing would harm noise-sensitive bowhead whales and the indigenous communities that harvest them.
(6) On the road to 2015, all political parties will need to tackle this conundrum if there is going to be a seismic shift away from traditional thinking about how health and social care are delivered.
(7) It had to be done as a matter of principle and not in a manner that damaged the eventual nominee.” Sanders may not be able to achieve the seismic changes Jackson did – Democratic leaders would likely look with extreme disfavor on someone who until last year was not a member of the party demanding changes to proportionality or to the superdelegate system, for example.
(8) The National Geological Survey recorded a seismic event of 2.1 magnitude.
(9) I look forward to the campaign starting so people can really start digging into the various contrasting options.” Canada's political landscape undergoes seismic shift with election in Alberta Read more But even that job will prove problematic for the Liberals, who are already struggling to differentiate their platform from that of the rising New Democrats, a formerly leftwing party successfully moved to the centre under Mulcair and the late Jack Layton.
(10) The softly spoken Dunlop, a graduate of Glasgow University who moved south and is now a Conservative councillor in Horsham, West Sussex, was a special adviser in Downing Street under Margaret Thatcher during the seismic event which defined Scottish politics in the final decade of the last century – the introduction of the poll tax.
(11) The Earth rang to the blast, with vibrations picked up by seismic sensors 4,000km away.
(12) Compass said in a statement: "Something seismic could be happening in British politics which reflects the Compass view of a more pluralistic and tolerant progressive democracy.
(13) In the 12 months leading up to June’s election, however, two seismic events shocked them into action.
(14) Dr Mark Porter, the head of the British Medical Association (BMA), said that whoever took office after the general election would inevitably be tempted to bring in charges and may not be deterred by the unpopularity of such a seismic change to the health service.
(15) Although earthquakes are mainly concentrated in zones close to boundaries of tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere, infrequent events away from the main seismic regions can cause major disasters.
(16) One idea would be to give the suburbs more public buildings – structures that, in Italy's fragile terrain, are seismically safe as well as green and civic-spirited.
(17) Given the current seismic wave of malpractice and liability litigation, hospitals must implement programs to effectively manage loss caused by injury within their institutions.
(18) The fact that this is such a big deal in 2014 shows just how pitifully slowly television has reacted to the seismic changes in wider society."
(19) After a year of seismic shocks comes the protest and fightback.
(20) During ontogenesis in mammals, a stage of programming by neurogenesis (seismic sleep) precedes the appearance of SP so long as the programming system isn't functional.