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            "mean": "A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. \n1590,  Edmund Spenser,  \u201cBook III, Canto II\u201d, in  The Faerie Queene.\u00a0, London:     for William Ponsonbie, \u2192OCLC:Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.\n2006 October 6,  Declan Walsh,  The Guardian:Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal."
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            "mean": "(planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. \n1988,  J\u00fcrgen Oberst; Yosio Nakamura,  \u201cA seismic risk for the lunar base\u201d, in  The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, volume 1, NASA, pages 231\u2013233:Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.\n2006,  Bruce A. Bolt,  Earthquakes, Fifth Edition:The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes."
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            "mean": "(figuratively) A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.\n2019 July 11,  John Thornhill,  \u201cDoes tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?\u201d, in  Financial Times\u200e:As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves.    He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin."
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            "mean": "(intransitive) To undergo an earthquake.\n1993,  Gyeorgos C. Hatonn,  The Best of Times: The Worst of Times, page 129:Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon."
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            "mean": "earthquake on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n Tectonic hazardsEarthquake on  Wikiversity.Wikiversity \n CategoryAnimations of earthquake impact on  Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons"
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