time / an event, case, occasion, moment; a specific period in time / a time of something / a season / a tense / (literary) the time during which a narrative takes place

straight, not bent

直ぐ: immediately, right away, soon / 直ぐ: quick to / 直ぐ: right next to, right close by

(obsolete) 過ぐ: classical form of modern 過ぎる (sugiru, “to go through, to go past; to exceed”)

(obsolete) 挿ぐ: classical form of modern 挿げる (sugeru, “to connect or affix one thing to another, especially by passing something through something else”)

evacuation

evacuate

直ぐに: immediately

an earthquake

earthquake