Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "earthquake" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

destroy city separate children from parents shake building shake city shake ground shake us up

Causes

buildings collapsing disaster ruined streets pipelines and houses tsunami

Derived Terms

antiearthquake birthquake cuntquake earthquake baroque earthquake bomb earthquake dam earthquake drill earthquake engineering earthquake protector earthquake storm earthquake-prone earthquakelike earthquakeproof earthquaky footquake hurriquake megaearthquake microearthquake mirthquake non-earthquake paleoearthquake postearthquake slow earthquake

Derived From

earth quake

Context

planetary geology

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

commotion disruption disturbance flutter geological phenomenon hoo-ha hoo-hah hurly burly kerfuffle to-do

Type Of (IsA)

disturbance geological phenomenon natural disaster natural hazard planetquake translational vibration

Related Terms

Richter scale aftershock earthquake engineering fault line moonquake seaquake seismic seismograph seismologist seismology starquake tremor tsunami

Related Terms

aftershock earthquake engineering fault fault line geologic ground moonquake richter scale seaquake seismic seismograph seismologist seismology starquake tremor tsunami volcanic

Synonym Network

earthdin quake seism temblor terremote tremblor tremor

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.