Vocabulary

earthquake prediction information

official warning (esp. of an impending earthquake)

Act on Special Measures Concerning Countermeasures for Large-Scale Earthquakes

Act on Special Measures Concerning Countermeasures for Large-Scale Earthquakes

seismic moment

ultra-microearthquake

minor earthquake

moderate earthquake

bird fancier's lung; bird breeder's disease

Cardiidae (family of bivalve molluscs comprising the cockles)

Veneridae (family of bivalve molluscs comprising the Venus clams)

quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria); quahaug; hard clam; hard-shell clam; round clam; littleneck

Burchard's cockle (Vasticardium burchardi)

submergent coastline; submerged coast; submerged shoreline

emergent coastline; emerged shoreline; negative shoreline; shoreline of emergence

high-water mark; high-water line; high-water shoreline

low-water mark; low-tide line; ebb-tide line

supratidal zone

Lunella coreensis (species of turban shell)

intertidal zone; tidal zone

subtidal zone

Mercenaria stimpsoni (species of Venus clam)

clam sauce pasta; vongole (e.g. spaghetti alle vongole)

Paphia euglypta (species of Venus clam)

Naticidae (family of molluscs comprising the moon snails)

moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell

Buccinidae (family of gastropod mollusc comprising the true whelks)

Ezo neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea polycostata)

whelk (esp. Neptunea and Buccinum spp.)

Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)

double-sculptured neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea intersculpta)

arthritic neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea arthritica)

perplexed spindle (species of sea snail, Fusinus perplexus)

whelk (esp. Neptunea and Buccinum spp.)

Gastropoda (class of molluscs)

precious wentletrap (Epitonium scalare)

Thais clavigera (species of rock shell)

trapezium horse conch (Pleuroploca trapezium)

many-formed cerith (Batillaria multiformis)

finely-striate buccinum (Buccinum striatissimum)