[f. EARTH sb.1 + QUAKING; also f. EARTHQUAKE + -ING2.] a. Causing the earth to shake. Also fig. ¶ b. Subject to earthquakes.
1589. Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 72. Ioue shaking his earthquaking haire.
1820. Shelley, Witch Atl., xlii. The earthquaking cataracts which shiver Their snow-like waters into golden air.
1881. Roden Noel, in Contemp. Rev., April, 570. But here amid earthquaking shocks Whirlwinds rave around the rocks.
1881. Athenæum, 27 Aug., 280/3. That … earthquaking spot which was selected by the Spanish leader for the site of his capital [Lima].
1887. Illust. Lond. News, 19 March, 306/3. I have travelled a good deal in earthquaking lands.
