seiche

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Devils Hole is home to the endangered pupfish, a unique breed that can face short-term challenges following the geological phenomenon, technically called a seiche.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022

“The earthquake causes what’s called a seismic seiche, and it’s basically a sloshing of the water back and forth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2019

The brutal shaking would have been enough to trigger a large seiche, and the first blobs of glass would have started to rain down seconds or minutes afterward.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2019

This video shows a seiche generated in a swimming pool by an earthquake in Nepal in 2015.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Cenéle amus: salanaig buale ⁊ buicc brodnai ⁊ eóin erchoille ⁊ seiche corad. cenela BM buale om.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno