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Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
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temblor
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Temblor may refer to: Temblor (The Batman) , Batman villain Temblor Range , mountain range in California Temblor, another name for earthquake On pipe organs, tremulant Temblor, Inc. , a startup dealing with seismic risk
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly US English) An earthquake.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity [syn: earthquake , quake , seism ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"earthquake," 1876, from American Spanish temblor "earthquake," from Spanish temblor , literally "a trembling," from temblar "to tremble," from Vulgar Latin *tremulare (see tremble (v.)).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It will give victims of the temblor additional time to find new housing or move back into homes still under repair. ▪ That, experts said, was due to the fact that the temblor was buried in solid rock 30 miles underground. ▪ The ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temblor \Tem*blor"\, n. [Sp.] An earthquake. [Western U. S.]
Usage examples of temblor.
Bass made his location check, the reinforced platoon that was the Bravo unit reached an area where a recent temblor had tumbled many large boulders to the valley floor and uprooted most of the trees on the steep slopes.
The temblors are too small and distant to be felt on land, but have been recorded at seismographic stations on South Georgia, Punta Arenas, the South Sandwich Islands, and the Falkland Islands.
Maybe there was a little temblor deep down in the Devonian, or maybe the open air had a corrosive effect on the exposed support timbers.
The temblor had shaken open a rack that split the plaster base right through the blessed Daisan's i ft foot.
A middle-aged nipponese widow feels the earth turning over, and scurries out of her paper house, fearing a temblor.
The old seismographs she had picked up all had records disturbed by recent temblors from the north, where there should have been very little activity.
But the temblors recorded by the seismographs were discrete short-period shocks, like explosions rather than marsquakes.
Her seismographs showed daily temblors to the east, and she drove toward them.
The temblors registering on her seismograph were very strong now, and appeared to be coming from a bit to the north.
It didn't— the graphs went back to normal, and the temblors a thousand kilometers away gradually subsided.
The records were so poor in the lab that minor temblors like that could have been occurring for months without meaning anything.
It didn’t— the graphs went back to normal, and the temblors a thousand kilometers away gradually subsided.
It didn't the graphs went back to normal, and the temblors a thousand kilometers away gradually subsided.