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shakemap

shakemap noun: a map showing ground movement and shaking intensity following major earthquakes.

shakemap: a map showing ground movement and shaking intensity following major earthquakes
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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 shakemap

pluralshakemaps
alternative formshake map

Origin of shakemap

From ShakeMaps, the U.S. Geological Survey software that produces such maps; from shake + map.

Questions about shakemap

What does shakemap mean?
Shakemap means a map showing ground movement and shaking intensity following major earthquakes.
What part of speech is shakemap?
Shakemap is a noun.
What is the plural of shakemap?
The plural of shakemap is shakemaps.

Words near shakemap in the dictionary

  1. shakefork
  2. shakeforks
  3. shakehand
  4. shakehole
  5. shakeholes
  6. shakemap
  7. shakemaps
  8. shaken
  9. shaken a leg
  10. shaken baby syndrome
  11. shaken baby syndromes

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