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bathyseism
An earthquake occurring at very deep levels in the earth.
bathyseism (s) (noun), bathyseisms (pl)
An earthquake of deep origin recordable at seismographic stations around the world: In her book about earthquakes, Judy learned that a bathyseism was an earth tremor having its source deep in the earth and probably caused by tectonic action.
This entry is located in the following units: batho-, bathy- (page 4) -ism, -ismus (page 9)