[f. WATER sb. + QUAKE sb., after EARTHQUAKE.] A seismic disturbance in the sea.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., II. 1039/2, marg. On the Saterday after … chaunced an other earthquake, or as some write, a watershake [marg.] waterquake.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 500. Wittlesmere doth somtimes in … faire weather sodainely rise tempestuously, as it were into violent water-quakes.
1755. H. Walpole, Lett. to Montagu, 25 Nov. There have been lately such earthquakes and waterquakes.
1762. Gentl. Mag., XXXII. 291/2. A water-quake was felt at Bergen in Norway.
1862. M. Hopkins, Hawaii, 419. Earthquakes and waterquakes are also the attendants of these fractures.
