vorticose

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The Academicians relate that in some of the cities of Calabria effects were produced seeming to indicate a whirling or vorticose movement.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

He records the occurrence of the so-called vorticose shocks at several places, though he attributes them to another cause.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

In the first phase, the undulations were marked by a dominant direction, but, towards the close of the second phase, there was no determinate direction, and the impression was again that of a vorticose shock.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

According to some observers, the concluding movements were vorticose.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

On this account, whatever might have been the cause of the earthquake, whether volcanic or electrical, the movement assumed every possible direction--vertical, horizontal, oscillatory, vorticose, and pulsatory; producing every variety of destruction.

From The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. by Anonymous