| 地震 | dì zhèn | earthquake |   |
| 地动 | dì dòng | earthquake (old term) | |
| 地牛翻身 | dì niú fān shēn | (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.) | |
| 抗震 | kàng zhèn | anti-seismic measures / seismic defenses / earthquake resistant | |
| 大地震 | dà dì zhèn | great earthquake | |
| 地震局 | dì zhèn jú | earthquake bureau | |
| 余震 | yú zhèn | earthquake aftershock | |
| 强震 | qiáng zhèn | powerful earthquake / abbr. for 強烈地震|强烈地震 | |
| 震中 | zhèn zhōng | earthquake epicenter | |
| 震级 | zhèn jí | degree of earthquake (on magnitude scale) | |
| 国家地震局 | Guó jiā dì zhèn jú | China Earthquake Administration (CEA) / State Seismological Bureau | |
| 地震烈度 | dì zhèn liè dù | earthquake intensity (measure of its destructive power) | |
| 地震学家 | dì zhèn xué jiā | seismologist / earthquake scientist | |
| 中国国家地震局 | Zhōng guó Guó jiā dì zhèn jú | China earthquake administration (CEA) / State seismological bureau | |
| 中国地震台 | Zhōng guó dì zhèn tái | China earthquake administration (CEA) / State seismological bureau | |
| 中国地震局 | Zhōng guó dì zhèn jú | China Earthquake Administration (CEA) / State Seismological Bureau | |
| 中源地震 | zhōng yuán dì zhèn | medium depth earthquake (with epicenter 70-300 km deep) | |
| 唐山大地震 | Táng shān Dà dì zhèn | Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976) | |
| 四川大地震 | Sì chuān Dà dì zhèn | Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008) | |
| 地震中 | dì zhèn zhōng | earthquake epicenter | |
| 地震区 | dì zhèn qū | seismic zone / earthquake belt | |
| 地震带 | dì zhèn dài | seismic zone / earthquake belt | |
| 地震活动带 | dì zhèn huó dòng dài | seismic zone / earthquake belt | |
| 川震 | Chuān zhèn | Sichuan great earthquake, the magnitude 8 earthquake of May 2008 at Wenchuan 汶川, Sichuan, that killed more than 80,000 people / same as 四川大地震[Si4 chuan1 Da4 di4 zhen4] | |
| 抗震救灾指挥部 | kàng zhèn jiù zāi zhǐ huī bù | State Council Earthquake Relief Headquarters | |
| 汶川地震 | Wèn chuān Dì zhèn | Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008) | |
| 汶川大地震 | Wèn chuān Dà dì zhèn | Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008) | |
| 深源地震 | shēn yuán dì zhèn | deep earthquake (with epicenter more than 300 km deep) | |
| 浅源地震 | qiǎn yuán dì zhèn | shallow earthquake (with epicenter less than 70 km deep) | |
| 关东地震 | Guān dōng dì zhèn | Kantō / earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area | |
| 陕西大地震 | Shǎn xī dà dì zhèn | the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people | |
| 震区 | zhèn qū | earthquake area | |
| 震情 | zhèn qíng | circumstances of an earthquake | |
| 震昏 | zhèn hūn | to knock out (of a jolt from an earthquake or crash) | |
| 震灾 | zhèn zāi | earthquake damage | |
| 震央 | zhèn yāng | earthquake epicenter (Tw) | |
| 地震工程 | | earthquake engineering | |
| 震源深度 | zhèn yuán shēn dù | focal depth of earthquake / depth of focus | |
| 地震工程和工程地震学研究所 | | Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology | |
| 国际地震工程协会 | | International Association for Earthquake Engineering | |
| 联合国工作人员救济伊朗地震灾民委员会 | | United Nations Staff Relief Committee for Earthquake Victims in Iran | |
| 欧洲地震工程协会 | | European Association for Earthquake Engineering | |
| 浅地震 | | shallow earthquake | |
| 评价和减轻阿拉伯区域地震危险方桉 | | Programme for Assessment and Mitigation of Earthquake Risks in the Arab Region | |
| 评估和减轻地震风险政府间会议 | | Intergovernmental Conference on the Assessment and Mitigation of Earthquake Risk | |
| 2005 年印度洋地震和海啸紧急呼吁 | | Indian Ocean Earthquake -Tsunami 2005 Flash Appeal | |
| 大陆地震活动性和地震预测专题讨论会 | | Symposium on Continental Seismicity and Earthquake Prediction (China) | |
| 地震序列 | | earthquake sequence / earthquake swarm | |
| 地震群 | | earthquake sequence / earthquake swarm | |
| 地震灾害委员会 | | Commission on Earthquake Hazard | |
| 欧洲地球学家建立地震研究网络工作组 | | Working Group of European Geoscientists for the Establishment of Networks for Earthquake Research | |
| 以地震为掩护 | | hide-in-an-earthquake technique / earthquake masking | |
| 海啸地震 | | tsunamigenic earthquake | |
| 地震与特大城市动议 | | Earthquake and Megacities Initiative | |
| 1991年关于地震和自然灾害对策的首脑会议 | | Summit Conference on Earthquake and Natural Disaster Countermeasures, 1991 | |
| 巴尔干减少地震危险网 | | Balkan Earthquake Risk Reduction Network | |
| 地震预测讲习班 | | Workshop on Earthquake Prediction | |
| 联合国工作人员秘鲁地震灾民救济委员会 | | United Nations Staff Relief Committee for the Victims of the Earthquake in Peru / United Nations Staff Relief Committee for Peru | |
| 联合国工作人员秘鲁救济委员会 | | United Nations Staff Relief Committee for the Victims of the Earthquake in Peru / United Nations Staff Relief Committee for Peru | |
| 世界地震工程会议 | | World Conference on Earthquake Engineering | |
| 南亚地震救灾特使 | | Special Envoy for the South Asian Earthquake Disaster | |
| 巴尔干区域减少地震风险常设协调委员会 | | Permanent Coordinating Committee on Earthquake Risk Reduction in the Balkan Region | |
| 欧洲地震工程师协会 | | European Earthquake Engineers | |
| 地震强度 | | earthquake intensity / seismic intensity | |
| 地震学和地震工程联合委员会 | | Joint Committee on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering | |
| 群震 | qún zhèn | earthquake swarm | |
| 群发性地震 | qún fā xìng dì zhèn | earthquake swarm | |
| 中国地震台网 | Zhōng guó Dì zhèn Tái wǎng | China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局|中国地震局[Zhong1 guo2 Di4 zhen4 ju2] | |
