worldquake

English

Etymology

From world +‎ quake.

Noun

worldquake (plural worldquakes)

  1. An earthshaking event.
    • 2018, Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us:
      The French Revolution struck Europe as though it was the epicentre of a worldquake.
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