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English
Etymology
Blend of hurricane + earthquake. First attested in 1999 as a nonce word.
Noun
hurriquake (plural hurriquakes)
- (neologism) An incidence of a hurricane and an earthquake occurring in quick succession.
1999 September 30, Old Curmudgeon, “1999 year of the Quake? Or Hurricane?”, in alt.obituaries (Usenet):The year of the hurriquake?
2011 November 16, ARRL Web site, “The ARES E-Letter for November 16, 2011”, in rec.radio.info (Usenet):HURRIQUAKE 2011 ¶ The week of August 22, 2011 may go down in weather history as one of the strangest in the Washington, DC area : On Tuesday, August 23, our area was hit with a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. […] ¶ […] The following Saturday night, Hurricane Irene passed just east of the area.