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Quicksand vs Earthquake - What's the difference?

quicksand | earthquake |

As nouns the difference between quicksand and earthquake

is that quicksand is wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

quicksand

Noun

  • Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
  • My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand , and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
  • Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
  • The quicksands of youth...

    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

    See also

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