temblors
- plural of temblor.
Example Sentences
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Small temblors are also common around the Geysers geothermal steam field in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
The quakes in 2024 rattled the region, but damage was decidedly modest, such as items knocked off shelves, because they were relatively small temblors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
A magnitude 3 earthquake occurred just north of Malibu Saturday afternoon, the latest in a cluster of temblors reported over the last week and a half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024
Since the quakes, the anger of many survivors has centered on the lax construction practices that allowed so many defective buildings to rise across a region with a history of powerful temblors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Think what a hundred years of cactus, sand, and occasional temblors can do to a desert, to say nothing of the playful zephyrs.
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley
