ジシン
Meanings
Noun
1. earthquake
Pitch accent
ジ
シン
Composed of
ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
Used in vocabulary (58 in total)
major earthquake; large earthquake
major earthquake; large earthquake
seismograph; seismometer
megaquake; massive earthquake
submarine earthquake
seismology
precautions against earthquake; anti-earthquake measures; antiearthquake procedures; earthquake countermeasures
earthquake prediction
near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area
Earthquake Early Warning; EEW
swarm earthquakes; series of earthquakes
seismic wave
seismic energy; earthquake energy
seismic motion
earthquake zone; earthquake belt
offshore earthquake
artificial earthquake
things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers
seismic observation
earthquake insurance
Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)
perceptible earthquake
earthquake fault
earthquake information
volcanic earthquake
tsunami (caused by an earthquake)
minor earthquake
Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
Nankai megathrust earthquake
moderate earthquake
Mino-Owari Earthquake (1891); Nōbi Earthquake
1946 Nankaido earthquake
imperceptible earthquake
Chūetsu earthquake (Niigata prefecture, 2004)
Seismological Society of Japan
seismic mineral exploration
seismic part (zone, belt)
slow earthquake; low-frequency earthquake; silent earthquake
tectonic earthquake
dislocation earthquake; fault earthquake
microearthquake
seismic network; seismic array
earthquake engineering
tsunami earthquake
Sanriku earthquake of 869 CE
Hōei earthquake (1707)
outer-rise earthquake; earthquake in the region seaward of a deep-sea trench
slow earthquake
low-frequency earthquake
slow earthquake
distant earthquake; teleseismic earthquake; teleseism
Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo
Chūetsu earthquake (Niigata prefecture, 2004)
Examples (78 in total)
Was there an earthquake?
That was not an earthquake.
I'm afraid of earthquakes.