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earth wave

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noun

Geology.
  1. any elastic wave traveling through the material of the earth, as a wave caused by an earthquake.


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A small earth wave was detected on June 12, and a slightly stronger one on June 13.

From Time Magazine Archive

An earth wave will shoot through the sea floor toward distant seismographs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The earth wave hid from him Black Hill, house and all.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

On the summit of a distant earth wave she saw the figure of Wandering William.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Burnham, Margaret

In one place some great earth wave of a trench has been bitten into and beaten back and turned blind into an eddy by great pits and chasms and running heaps.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John