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

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

We were carried right in by that earthquake wave, and the water has retired and left us stranded.

From Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by Fenn, George Manville

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.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

No likelihood of another earthquake wave, is there, sir?”

From Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by Fenn, George Manville