seismic
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- s subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
- By measuring the speed of travel of seismic waves on the San Andreas Fault, scientists discovered an intriguing pattern: the waves slowed dramatically in advance of earthquakes.
- In much of the West, with its long seismic faults and Yellowstone-centered hot spots, it is for humans a sublimely tenuous coexistence with the earth's fickle tectonic temperaments.
- A much smaller seismic shift struck on the day he said it would, with the truly disastrous one arriving just one week later.