[ US /ˈtɛmbɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
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How To Use temblor In A Sentence

  • Even the global sea level is now half a millimeter higher than it was before the temblor.
  • In recent decades, quakes felt in San Diego, a city lacking a big disaster in its history, have tended to be far-away temblors with a long reach.
  • A magnitude 6.7 temblor on Oct. 23 is now considered a foreshock.
  • Seventy-six houses, several bridges and buildings collapsed totally or partially because of the temblor, which also triggered landslides in affected areas.
  • For example, seismic instruments about 300 kilometers southwest of Mexico City detect the vibrations spreading from large temblors that occur even farther to the southwest.
  • With Japan facing a mounting economic crisis in the wake of Friday's magnitude-8.9 earthquake and deadly tsunami, global insurers are already calling the temblor the... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • In the 70 years prior to the 1906 earthquake, a temblor of at least magnitude 6 struck the region an average of every four years, she said.
  • Hawai'i's largest earthquake threat, however, isn't from home grown temblors - it is from tsunamis created by distant quakes along the Pacific Rim in Asia or the Americas.
  • The temblor proved that an earthquake smaller in magnitude can cause greater damage than a more powerful earthquake.
  • He was referring to the aftershocks that invariably follow a large temblor, or main shock.
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