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What is a seaquake?

What is a seaquake? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A hydrostatic pressure disturbance caused by an earthquake or volcano in the seabed.
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The presence of the international humanitarian community was however less marked than with the Asian seaquake.
Experts believe they may have been affected by a seaquake off the Norwegian coast on August 30 or the operations of a ship carrying out seismic tests off Aberdeen.
For the people of Sumatra, which lies very close to the epicentre of the seaquake, a warning would very likely have come to late, because the water reached the island already after a few minutes.
The museum in Indonesia's politically fraught Aceh province was shaken by the seaquake that triggered off the tsunami.
The marine park of Baia is also on your itinerary, it was formed after a seaquake.
On December 26th 2004 one of the biggest natural disasters in history occurred in Southeast Asia: a seaquake in the Indian Ocean caused an enormous tsunami hitting many countries.

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