a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
Recent Examples on the WebThe quakes began at 3:58 p.m. when a 3.7 temblor was recorded four miles south-southwest of Brawley, in a region southeast of the Salton Sea, where the Brawley and San Andreas faults meet.—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024 The temblor story of Torrey Pines’ SJ Dohrenwend, however, is quite literal.—Jim Lindgren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024 The temblor struck at 9:08 a.m. just north of Borrego Springs, a San Diego County desert town about 60 miles south of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, home of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, according to U.S. Geological Survey information.—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2024 That temblor took place two days before a major 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan killing 12 people and injuring more than 1,000 others.—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for temblor
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Word History
Etymology
Spanish, literally, trembling, from temblar to tremble, from Medieval Latin tremulare — more at tremble
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