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a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
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The team discovered that some temblors, including the 1906 earthquake that devastated San Francisco, were one-off events that were caused exclusively by movements along the northern San Andreas Fault.
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Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
With the most notable victim possibly being a shattered jar of sundried tomatoes on the floor of a North Berkeley cheese shop, the temblor gave what experts say was a low-stakes but important tectonic reminder for the region.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Minor earthquakes have continued rattling the Kamchatka region of Russia in the aftermath of a massive 7.8 magnitude temblor that struck the area on Thursday, with aftershocks from 4.5 to 5.5 magnitude throughout Friday.
—Peter Aitken
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
At least 1,100 people were killed and more than 3,200 were injured when the 6.0-magnitude temblor struck near the Pakistan border on Sunday.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
With the most notable victim possibly being a shattered jar of sundried tomatoes on the floor of a North Berkeley cheese shop, the temblor gave what experts say was a low-stakes but important tectonic reminder for the region.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Minor earthquakes have continued rattling the Kamchatka region of Russia in the aftermath of a massive 7.8 magnitude temblor that struck the area on Thursday, with aftershocks from 4.5 to 5.5 magnitude throughout Friday.
—Peter Aitken
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
At least 1,100 people were killed and more than 3,200 were injured when the 6.0-magnitude temblor struck near the Pakistan border on Sunday.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Temblor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temblor. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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