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See also: shake map
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ShakeMaps, the U.S. Geological Survey software that produces such maps; from shake + map.
Noun
[edit]shakemap (plural shakemaps)
- (geology) A map showing ground movement and shaking intensity following major earthquakes.
- 2013 September 24, Daniel Engber, “Major Quake in Pakistan: Two Reported Dead, Experts Guess Several Thousand More”, in Slate Magazine[1]:
- The PAGER team takes information from a “shake map”—which guesses how much shaking there will be at various distances and directions from the earthquake’s epicenter—and compares that with a map of local populations.
References
[edit]- ShakeMaps, United States Geological Survey