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
No likelihood of another earthquake wave, is there, sir?”
From Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by Fenn, George Manville
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
It was a thriving little island, and boasted of several busy towns, all of which have been completely ruined and in part swept away by the earthquake wave.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 53, November 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt
In less than two years subsequent to our visit the whole of this grand pile was little better than a heap of ruins, from an earthquake wave which passed over these islands.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by Smith, J. J.
