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  • adverb In a seismic manner

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Examples

  • And even having seen a lot of the construction there, including buildings under construction over the last six or eight months in Haiti, the construction that is multistory is not being built even close to anything that we in the United States would call seismically - resistant standards.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010 2010

  • We played back the calls seismically once every minute over the course of three minutes, and then we watched responses over the next five minutes: vigilant behaviors such as freezing, scanning, smelling, foot lifting, and vocalizing.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • We played back the calls seismically once every minute over the course of three minutes, and then we watched responses over the next five minutes: vigilant behaviors such as freezing, scanning, smelling, foot lifting, and vocalizing.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • We played back the calls seismically once every minute over the course of three minutes, and then we watched responses over the next five minutes: vigilant behaviors such as freezing, scanning, smelling, foot lifting, and vocalizing.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • We played back the calls seismically once every minute over the course of three minutes, and then we watched responses over the next five minutes: vigilant behaviors such as freezing, scanning, smelling, foot lifting, and vocalizing.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • Monday's quake occurred near the meeting point of two major fault lines, which geologists described as a seismically unstable triangle.

    WIBW - HomePage - Headlines 2010

  • I was raised in California which has a lot of quakes, and I spent the last half of my life in Alaska which is the most seismically active state in The US, earthquakes are at least a weekly event up there, so earthquakes are not unusual or terrifying for me.

    Ahora, encima de todo 2009

  • Today the Northwest seems seismically calm, but in reality the fault could let go again at any moment.

    Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011

  • Today the Northwest seems seismically calm, but in reality the fault could let go again at any moment.

    Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011

  • The V-Wagon is utterly, cosmically and seismically wrong , a filthy, shameful ogre of torque that bellows and sets alight thatched roofs as it drives by — Caliban with pushrods.

    Cadillac's Insane, Unnecessary, Awesome Wagon Dan Neil 2011

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  • "Grab that Irishman!", yelled Tom, seismically.

    December 12, 2007