as in quakes
a shaking of the earth
a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
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Recent Examples of temblors
Those temblors did not have any immediate reports of injuries but did cause BART trains to temporarily reduce their speed.
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Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
The earthquakes occurred near neighborhoods previously affected by historic temblors.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
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.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
The earthquakes occurred near neighborhoods previously affected by historic temblors.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
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.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for temblors
Noun
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Also, many of the quakes may be around the same magnitude, geologists said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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The quakes were centered in a residential area just south of Bollinger Canyon Drive between Dougherty Road and Alcosta Boulevard.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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Last month, at least seven earthquakes rattled the coast of Alaska in a span of 24 hours.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The tremors from Old Trafford also rustled the papers on the desk of Napoli’s sporting director Giovanni Manna.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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More than 235 people from as far away as Menlo Park and Fremont reported feeling the tremors to the agency.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Temblors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temblors. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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