Cyclone vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
cyclone | earthquake |
A system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.
A low pressure system.
(popular) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
A strong wind.
A Southeastern and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon that results in wind speeds of around 150 to 200 km/h.
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
As nouns the difference between cyclone and earthquake
is that cyclone is a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.cyclone
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* (English Citations of "cyclone")Derived terms
* anticycloneSee also
* hurricane * typhoon *polar vortex * (wikipedia) ----earthquake
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(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.