しん
Meanings
Noun
1. earthquake
Kanji used
ground
tremors
Pitch accent
しん
Top 6200
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 (53 in total)
major earthquake; large earthquake
major earthquake; large earthquake
seismograph; seismometer
massive earthquake; megaquake
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 zone; earthquake belt
offshore earthquake
artificial earthquake
things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers
earthquake insurance
Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)
perceptible earthquake
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
tsunami (caused by an earthquake)
moderate earthquake
1946 Nankaido earthquake
things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers
imperceptible earthquake
distant earthquake; teleseismic earthquake; teleseism
slow earthquake; low-frequency earthquake; silent earthquake
outer-rise earthquake; earthquake in the region seaward of a deep-sea trench
slow earthquake
seismic part (zone, belt)
earthquake engineering
dislocation earthquake; fault earthquake
seismic mineral exploration
Sanriku earthquake of 869 CE
1707 Hōei earthquake
seismic network; seismic array
Examples (77 in total)
Was there an earthquake?
That was not an earthquake.
I'm afraid of earthquakes.