Word List Earthquakes 253 words

Earthquakes Vocabulary Word List (253)

• A

  action, activity, affect, aftermath, aid, aide, airlift, alive, Alpide belt, anxiety, appeal, areas, authorities

• B

  bad, beg, belt, beneath, bloating, bodies, burial, buried, bury

• C

  calamity, California, casualty, catastrophic, center, chaos, charity, circum-Pacific belt, clean, clear, clinic, collapsed, collision, communication, compassion, compressional waves, consequences, control, cooperation, coordination, corpse, countless, crash, crisis, crumble, crushed

• D

  damage, dead, deadly, debris, decay, depth, desperation, destruction, destructive, devastation, dig, disaster, disruption, distributions, doctors, dogs, donations

• E

  earth, earth-moving, earthquake, effect, efforts, emergency, energy, engineering, enormity, epicenter, epidemic, equipment, evacuation, exhaustion, experiment, exploitation

• F

  failure, faith, fault, fear, fellowship, flight, focus, food, frighten, frustration

• G

  generosity, gentle, graves, grief, ground

• H

  harm, heed, help, heroic, historical, hit, homeless, horrific, horrify, hospitalization, humanitarian, hurt

• I

  ill, illness, impact, implement, impossible, improvements, infrastructure, injuries, instability, interest, international

• J

  Japan, joining, joint

• K

• L

  lack of, law, lawlessness, lives, location, looting, loss, loss of life

• M

  magnitude, major, makeshift, manpower, mass graves, massive, medicine, military, minor, miracle, misfortune, moderate, money, morgue, motion, movement

• N

  nations, needs, needy, neighbors, noise, non-potable

• O

  occurrence, odors, offshore, optimism, organization, oversee

• P

  perish, personnel, pessimism, piles, plate, politics, power, precarious, prediction, preliminary, progress, property, purification

• Q

  quake, query, questions, quick

• R

  rations, ravage, recovery, region, register, relief, repair, report, rescue, residential, resources, Richter Scale, Ring of Fire, rock, roll, rubble, ruins, rumbling, rupture

• S

  safe, safety, scams, sea, searching, seismic, seismology, severe. shake, shatter, shear wave, shift, shock, shovel, situation, slow, small, sorrow, SOS, strength, strike, struck, successful, suffering, supplies, support, surface, survivors

• T

  task, teams, tectonics, time, timely, trapped, tremor, tsunami

• U

  U.S. Geological Survey, urban, urgency, urgent

• V

  vibration, violent, visible, volunteers, vulnerable

• W

  water, wave, waves, weary, welcome, workers, worldwide, worry, worst, wounds, wreckage

• X

• Y

  youth

• Z

  zeal, zone