earthquake
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A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. (defdate)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year_published=|volume=II|location=London|page=9|passage=I had just awoke at gun-fire (5 A.M.), when suddenly the thatch began to rustle and shake as if an army of cats were galloping over it, and immediately afterwards my bed shook too, so that for an instant I imagined myself back in New Guinea, in my fragile house, which shook when an old cock went to roost on the ridge; but remembering that I was now on a solid earthen floor, I said to myself, "Why, it's an earthquake," and lay still in the pleasing expectation of another shock; but none came, and this was the only earthquake I ever felt in Ternate.
{{quote-journal|en|author=Declan Walsh|journal=The Guardian|date=6 Oct 2006
Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1988|author=Jürgen Oberst; Yosio Nakamura|chapter=A seismic risk for the lunar base|title=The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century|volume=1|pages=231–233|publisher=NASA
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A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
(quote-journal) He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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To undergo an earthquake.
{{quote-text|en|year=1993|author=Gyeorgos C. Hatonn|title=The Best of Times: The Worst of Times|page=129
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