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地震 (じしん) related words

April has been full of earthquakes in Taiwan.

2024 Hualien earthquake – Wikipedia

In the past two days there’s been so many earthquakes 🥺 I wanted to talk to my teacher about it, so here’s the list of words I’ve collected.

Related pronunciations

• 地震 – earthquake
• 自信 – self-confidence
• 自身 – self

Related words

• 震度 (しんど) – seismic intensity
  震度5強 (きょう) の地震があった。
  There was an earthquake with a seismic intensity of strong 5.
• 余震 (よしん) – aftershock
  大きな地震の後に何度も余震が続いた (つずいた)。
  After the big earthquake, there were many aftershocks.
• 断層 (だんそう) – fault (geology)
  その地域 (ちいき) は複数 (ふくすう) の断層が存在 (そんざい) している。
  There are multiple faults in that area.
• 震源地 (しんげんち) – epicenter
  震源地は市 (し) の中心部 (ちゅうしんぶ) 近くにあった。
• マグニチュード – magnitude
  その地震のマグニチュードは7.2だった。
  The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2.
• 地震計 (じしんけい) – seismometer
  地震計が大きな揺れを検知 (けんち) した。
  The seismometer detected strong shaking.
• 揺れ (ゆれ) – shake
  地震の揺れがとても強かった。
  The shaking from the earthquake was very strong.

Difference between マグニチュード and 震度

マグニチュード: total amount of energy released by the earthquake at its source
震度: how big you felt it in your local area

as someone who was at hualien during the hualien earthquake, this is cool to learn about! taiwan is still experiencing some earthquakes, but not as bad as before. the more you know i guess 😀

The earthquake yesterday seemed to have caused a couple more buildings in Hualien to become slanted 🥺

Earthquake in Hualien causes hotel to tilt│TVBS新聞網

What a coincidence, didn’t expect to see someone staying in Taiwan on tumblr. Hi (BIG WAVE OF WAVES) 👋👋👋👋👋👋