as in quake
a shaking of the earth a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village

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Recent Examples of temblor Twenty-four hours after the temblor struck, those trapped under rubble would have endured a night in sub-zero temperatures, adding to the pressure on rescuers looking for survivors in an area the size of Cambodia. Reuters, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025 There have only been about a dozen earthquakes in California that registered at or above a 7.0 since 1857, according to the state's department of conservation, the most recent being a 7.1 temblor that struck near Ridgecrest in July 2019. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 The house was built from redwood and still has its original studs, so its sturdiness prevented it from sustaining any damage in the temblor, Chappelle said. Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 This year also marked the 30th anniversary of Los Angeles’ last destructive earthquake: the magnitude 6.7 Northridge temblor. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for temblor 
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Noun
  • Most quakes occur near to the boundary of these plates, the result of the slow buildup of stress in the crust.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The startling quake in an unexpected area should serve as a wake-up call for businesses, schools and homeowners everywhere to consider having safety protocols for earthquakes, the resident said.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.
    New York Times, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • What To Know The powerful earthquake hit the Caribbean, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, at around 6:23 p.m. local time on Saturday.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, and sometimes death.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Osbourne previously announced that he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease — a progressive nervous system disorder that causes tremors, stiffness, speech changes, or slowing of movement — in 2020.
    EW.com, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025

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