Temblor

/tˈɛmblə/

/ˈtɛmbɫɝ/

Temblor

shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity

synonyms : earthquake

quake

seism

Examples

1. The temblor was even felt as far as Las Vegas, Nevada.

2. A 5.3 temblor shook Colorado overnight, the strongest there in a century.

3. The temblor is estimated to be about a magnitude 4.2 and shook for nearly an hour-and-a-half.

4. Steve Evans first became aware of the Waldrops in the pages of Temblor when he was an undergraduate at UC San Diego, where he was also a student, I might add, of Fannie House sitting in the second row there who's here.

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