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

We were carried right in by that earthquake wave, and the water has retired and left us stranded.

From Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by Fenn, George Manville

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

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

It has suffered frequently from earthquakes, being in 1868 almost entirely destroyed, part of it being also submerged by an earthquake wave.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various