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earthquake
 earthquake
earth.sc. environ. terramoto; terremoto; tremor de terra
econ. sismo
| measurement
 measurement
agric. medição
comp., MS Braz. medida
mech.eng. dimensão

adjective | noun | to phrases
earthquake ['ɜ:θkweɪk] adj.
earth.sc., environ. terramoto; terremoto; tremor de terra
econ. sismo
environ. sismos
earthquake The violent shaking of the ground produced by deep seismic waves, beneath the epicentre, generated by a sudden decrease or release in a volume of rock of elastic strain accumulated over a long time in regions of seismic activity (tectonic earthquake). The magnitude of an earthquake is represented by the Richter scale; the intensity by the Mercalli scale ['ɜ:θkweɪk] adj.
environ. sismos
 English thesaurus
earthquake ['ɜ:θkweɪk] abbr.
abbr., amer. temblor (a Spanish loanword Val_Ships)
earthquake: 27 phrases in 8 subjects
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