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a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
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What precisely is fueling the sequence of shakers is not entirely clear, and officials warn that prior seismic activity does not necessarily mean more powerful temblors are imminent.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
Over that time period, Jones said, there was an average of eight to 10 independent sequences of earthquakes annually that included at least one temblor of magnitude 4 or greater.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
On New Year’s Day 2024, a powerful magnitude 7.6 temblor rocked the Noto Peninsula in western Japan, damaging more than 76,000 homes and killing around 245 people.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
Advertisement So the recent activity does not offer any hint of when the next large, destructive temblor will occur, said Susan Hough, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist, earlier this month.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
Over that time period, Jones said, there was an average of eight to 10 independent sequences of earthquakes annually that included at least one temblor of magnitude 4 or greater.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
On New Year’s Day 2024, a powerful magnitude 7.6 temblor rocked the Noto Peninsula in western Japan, damaging more than 76,000 homes and killing around 245 people.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
Advertisement So the recent activity does not offer any hint of when the next large, destructive temblor will occur, said Susan Hough, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist, earlier this month.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Temblor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temblor. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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