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shakemaps

shakemaps is the plural 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

Questions about shakemaps

What is shakemaps the plural of?
Shakemaps is the plural of shakemap.

Words near shakemaps in the dictionary

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

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