earthquake Label

Language

en

Definition

DefGEMET: 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. (Source: GUNN)

Part of speech

Noun (male)

Base form

earthquake

Inflectionals

earthquake, earthquakes

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Text Analysis

Benennung mit Textanalysefunktion

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Source Note

de

GEMETID2402

Change Notes

Initial version
on 2007-02-11
Last change
on 2007-02-11