おきしん
Meanings
Suffix
1. offshore earthquake
Kanji used
open sea
ground
tremors
Composed of
open sea; Okinawa
earthquake
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tohoku earthquake; Sendai Earthquake; Great East Japan Earthquake
Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)
Sanriku offshore earthquake (esp. June 15, 1896, March 3, 1933, and March 11, 2011); Sanriku earthquake