If you live in Northern California, did you feel the Napa quake? Are the aftershocks over? If so, it's time for French Earthquake Vocabulary!
earthquake = un tremblement de terre, un séisme
tremor = une secousse
aftershock = une réplique
tectonic plates = les plaques (f) tectoniques
collapse = effondrement (m), écroulement (m)
destruction = la distruction, l'anéantissement (m)
to crack (produce fissures) = lézarder*
to shake = trembler
a crack = une lézarde**
earthquake insurance = l'assurance (f) contre les tremblements
injury = une blessure
*note: isn't this a wonderful sounding word? Plus, it has another familiar meaning, to bask, lounge, laze around
**note: the masculine, un lézard, is a lizard
Now don't get me started on the drought (la sécheresse)!
