| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake |
aftershock
|
| earthquake after main shock, mini |
aftershock
,
tremors
|
| according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake |
Atlantis
|
| ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 |
Bam
|
| huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake |
Colossus of Rhodes
|
| physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval |
convulsion
|
| small earthquake |
earth tremor
,
microseism
,
tremor
|
| earthquake center |
epicenter
|
| point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake |
epicenter
,
epicentre
|
| (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time |
exceedance
|
| tremor preceding an earthquake |
foreshock
|
| earthquake preliminary tremor |
foreshock
|
| port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was damaged by an earthquake in 1995 |
Kobe
|
| earthquake's energy on scale |
magnitude
|
| scale of earthquake intensity; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII |
Mercalli scale
|
| scale for earthquake magnitude |
Richter
|
| logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 used to express the energy released by an earthquake |
Richter scale
|
| scale for measuring the intensity of an earthquake |
Richter scale
|
| earthquake magnitude scale |
Richter scale
|
| aftermath of an earthquake |
rubble
|
