earthquake wave
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The researchers studied earthquake wave pairs from Alaska, going all the way back to 1964.
From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 16, 2023
A tidal wave, or, more properly speaking, an earthquake wave, is an extraordinarily high wave, supposed to be formed by the disturbance caused by an earthquake in the bed of the sea.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 53, November 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop
But it came back again like an earthquake wave.
From Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Vegetation was so rapid in its growth, and seed spread so quickly, wind swept, that the traces of the earthquake wave were pretty well obliterated by bright young growth.
From Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by George Manville Fenn
It has suffered frequently from earthquakes, being in 1868 almost entirely destroyed, part of it being also submerged by an earthquake wave.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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