earthquake
US: /ˈɝθˌkweɪk/
UK: /ˈɜːθkweɪk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
earthquake /'ə:θkweik/- danh từ
- sự động đất
- (nghĩa bóng) sự chấn động (xã hội...)
Advanced English dictionary
(also informal quake)+ noun
a sudden, violent shaking of the earth's surface: damage caused by a powerful earthquake + The earthquake measured 68 on the Richter scale.
Collocation
ADJ.
big, great, huge, major, massive, severe | minor, small
EARTHQUAKE + VERB
happen, hit sth, occur, strike (sth)
The earthquake hit the city at two in the morning.
| shake sth
The earthquake shook buildings throughout the business district.
| destroy sth, devastate sth, kill sb, leave sb homeless | measure sth
an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale
EARTHQUAKE + NOUN
zone
PREP.
in a/the ~
The block of flats was destroyed in an earthquake.
PHRASES
the epicentre of an earthquake, the magnitude of an earthquake
Concise dictionary
earthquakes+shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
+a disturbance that is extremely disruptive
