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

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 Fenn, George Manville

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

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 Bishop, Julia Truitt

I compared the records of all the seismographs that had registered the earthquake wave attendant on the electrical discharges accompanying the great yellow auroras of July.

From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Wood, Robert Williams