a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
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The powerful temblor caused power outages and broke water lines in some communities, plus knocked plenty of products off store shelves.—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 The area where Thursday’s temblor struck is a complex meeting point of tectonic plates where earthquakes are unpredictable, said Christine Goulet, the director of the Earthquake Science Center.—Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024 Harold Tobin, the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, said the temblor was a strike-slip earthquake, which means that two plates slid past each other, causing shaking.—Evan Bush, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024 The temblor struck 45 miles SW of Eureka in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 8 miles beneath the ocean floor.—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for temblor
Word History
Etymology
Spanish, literally, trembling, from temblar to tremble, from Medieval Latin tremulare — more at tremble
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