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seismogenic

adjective

seismogenic is an adjective meaning “Capable of causing earthquakes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-I-S-M-O-G-E-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does seismogenic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Capable of causing earthquakes.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of seismogenic

  • more seismogenic comparative
  • most seismogenic superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is seismogenic?

Seismogenic appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does seismogenic come from?

From seismo- + -genic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).