じしん
Meanings
Noun
1. earthquake
Pitch accent
しん
Composed of
ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
Used in vocabulary (52 in total)
major earthquake; large earthquake
major earthquake; large earthquake
seismograph; seismometer
massive earthquake; megaquake
submarine earthquake
seismology
earthquake prediction
precautions against earthquake; anti-earthquake measures; antiearthquake procedures; earthquake countermeasures
near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area
Earthquake Early Warning; EEW
seismic wave
seismic motion
earthquake zone; earthquake belt
swarm earthquakes
offshore earthquake
artificial earthquake
things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers
seismic observation
earthquake insurance
Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)
volcanic earthquake
earthquake fault
perceptible earthquake
tsunami (caused by an earthquake)
minor earthquake
earthquake information
Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
Nankai megathrust earthquake
moderate earthquake
1946 Nankaido earthquake
seismic mineral exploration
seismic part (zone, belt)
slow earthquake; low-frequency earthquake; silent earthquake
tectonic earthquake
dislocation earthquake; fault earthquake
microearthquake
imperceptible earthquake
seismic network; seismic array
earthquake engineering
tsunami earthquake
Sanriku earthquake of 869 CE
1707 Hōei earthquake
outer-rise earthquake; earthquake in the region seaward of a deep-sea trench
slow earthquake
low-frequency earthquake
slow earthquake
distant earthquake; teleseismic earthquake; teleseism
Examples (77 in total)
Was there an earthquake?
That was not an earthquake.
I'm afraid of earthquakes.