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Earthquake vs Antiearthquake - What's the difference?

earthquake | antiearthquake |

As a noun earthquake

is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

As an adjective antiearthquake is

preventing damage from earthquakes.

earthquake

English

(wikipedia earthquake)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * earthdin * quake * seism * temblor * terremote * tremblor * tremor

    Derived terms

    * earthquake-prone

    Related terms

    * moonquake * seaquake * starquake

    See also

    * aftershock * earthquake engineering * fault line * Richter scale * seismic * seismograph * seismologist * seismology * tremor * tsunami

    antiearthquake

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Preventing damage from earthquakes.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 14, author=Norimitsu Onishi, title=Northern Japan Quake Kills 2 and Injures Dozens, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The earthquake sent tremors down to Tokyo, 190 miles south, where high-rise buildings with the most advanced antiearthquake technology swayed for a couple of minutes. }}