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From earth + quake.
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earthquake (plural earthquakes)
- A shaking of the surface of a planet, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
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shaking of the surface of a planet
- Afrikaans: ardbewing
- Albanian: tërmet (sq) m.
- Arabic: زِلزال (ar) (zilzaal) m.
- Aragonese: tierratremo, terrentrín
- Armenian: երկրաշարժ (hy) (erkrašarž)
- Azeri: zəlzələ
- Basque: lurrikara
- Belarusian: землятрус (be) (zemljatrús) m.
- Bengali: ভূমিকম্প (bn) (bhumikômpô)
- Bosnian: zemljotres (bs) m.
- Breton: kren-douar (br) m.
- Bulgarian: земетресение (bg) (zemetresénie) n.
- Catalan: terratrèmol m.
- Chamicuro: ijmulalaki
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 地震 (cmn) (dìzhèn)
- Croatian: potres (hr) m.
- Czech: zemětřesení (cs) n.
- Danish: jordskælv (da) n.
- Dutch: aardbeving (nl) f., aardschok (nl) m.
- Esperanto: tertremo (eo)
- Estonian: maavärin
- Faroese: Jarðskjálvti (fo)
- Finnish: maanjäristys (fi)
- French: tremblement de terre (fr) m., séisme (fr) m.
- Galician: terremoto, terramoto, sismo
- Georgian: მიწისძვრა (ka) (micisjvra)
- German: Erdbeben (de) n.
- Greek: σεισμός (el) (seismós) m., (personification) Εγκέλαδος (el) (Egkélados) m.
- Greenlandic: nunap sajunnera (kl)
- Haitian Creole: tranbleman detè, tranblemanntè, tranblemandtè
- Hebrew: רעידת אדמה (he) (reidat adama) f., רעש אדמה (he) (raash adama) m.
- Hindi: भूकंप (hi) (bhūkamp) m.
- Hungarian: földrengés (hu)
- Icelandic: jarðskjálfti (is) m.
- Indonesian: gempa bumi (id)
- Irish: crith talún (ga) m.
- Italian: terremoto (it) m., sisma (it) m.
- Japanese: 地震 (ja) (じしん, jishin)
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