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shake map

shake map is the alternative form of shakemap.

Meaning of shakemap

Noun

shakemap (plural shakemaps)

  1. A map showing ground movement and shaking intensity following major earthquakes.
    • The PAGER team takes information from a “shake map”—which guesses how much shaking there will be at various distances and directions from the earthquake’s epicenter—and compares that with a map of local populations.2013 September 24, Daniel Engber, “Major Quake in Pakistan: Two Reported Dead, Experts Guess Several Thousand More”, in Slate Magazine

Forms of shake map

pluralshake maps

Questions about shake map

What is shake map the alternative form of?
Shake map is the alternative form of shakemap.

Words near shake map in the dictionary

  1. shake in one's boots
  2. shake in one's shoes
  3. shake it
  4. shake it up
  5. shake like a leaf
  6. shake map
  7. shake maps
  8. shake off
  9. shake off the dust from one's feet
  10. shake on it
  11. shake one's ass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shake map (page history and authors); shakemap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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