Hurriquake

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An incidence of a hurricane and an earthquake occurring in quick succession. neologism

    "The year of the hurriquake?"

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"HURRIQUAKE 2011 ¶ The week of August 22, 2011 may go down in weather history as one of the strangest in the Washington, DC area : On Tuesday, August 23, our area was hit with a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. […] ¶ […] The following Saturday night, Hurricane Irene passed just east of the area."

Etymology

Blend of hurricane + earthquake. First attested in 1999 as a nonce word.

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