earthquake victims
Seismic disaster sufferers
People who have been harmed, displaced, or killed by an earthquake.
The term encompasses those who suffer physical injury, lose homes or loved ones, or face disruption from seismic events: Relief organizations rushed supplies to earthquake victims.
Often used in news coverage and humanitarian contexts to describe populations needing assistance after a disaster.
- natural disasterCatastrophic environmental event
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- rescueSave from harm
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- debrisScattered broken fragments
body bags · death toll · trapped · injured · displaced · homeless · tent city · emergency shelter · devastation · aftershock · tremor · buried · shelter · relief · aid · Red Cross · evacuation · casualties
- victimscasualty, survivors, fatality, casualties, sufferer
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- aid recipientsfood stamp users, Medicare recipients, social security recipients, scholarship holders, charity cases
earthquake victimsperpetrators
Those who commit wrongs
aggressors · attackers · oppressors · victimizers · criminals
earthquake victimsfirst responders
Personnel arriving at emergencies initially
relief workers · aid workers · emergency responders · humanitarian workers · benefactors
earthquake, victims, earth, quake, quakes, quaked, quaking, quaker, earthly