ちょっがたしん
Meanings
Noun
1. near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area
Kanji used
straight
below
model
ground
tremors
Pitch accent
ちょ
っかがたじ
しん
Composed of
directly under; falling perpendicularly
model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
earthquake
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
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