Synonyms for earthquakes
earth·quakes

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1. List of paraphrases for "earthquakes":

   quakes, earthquake, seismological, tremors, seismic, seismology, quake

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1. Chris Goldfinger:

   You're going to have three to five minutes of shaking, and if you're used to earthquakes in California, they typically last 15 to 30 seconds and before you are really sure of what is happening, it is over.

2. Van Hinsbergen:

   Subduction, the plunging of one plate under the other, is the basic way in which mountain chains are formed, our research provided a large number of insights, also about volcanism and earthquakes, that we are already applying elsewhere. You can even predict, to a certain extent, what a given area will look like in the far future.

3. Thomas Heaton:

   There is now a catalog that stores the locations, sizes and times of millions of past earthquakes, it is quite straightforward to characterize the statistical behavior of these events.

4. Robert Gurval:

   It would be remarkable if it could have survived the millennia of culture change and natural ruin, even if untouched by human hands, earthquakes and seawater would have buried or submerged it.

5. Daniel McNamara:

   Any one of these fault zones that are producing magnitude 3 or 4 earthquakes could rupture into a larger earthquake. There are as many as 12 different fault zones that are capable of producing a large, 5 to 6 magnitude earthquake.