earthquake wave
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The researchers studied earthquake wave pairs from Alaska, going all the way back to 1964.
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In less than two years subsequent to our visit the whole of this grand pile was little better than a heap of ruins, from an earthquake wave which passed over these islands.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
Rollers are of the nature of a violent ground swell, and possibly the worst of them may be due to the propagation of an earthquake wave.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
E, Epicentre. 1-4, Successive positions of earthquake wave.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
It must have been some tremendous natural convulsions, an earthquake wave of enormous lateral dimensions, which threw up this pumice-stone, and deposited it throughout this entire region at the same height above high-water mark.
