[
US
/ˈtɛmbɫɝ/
]
NOUN
- shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
How To Use temblor In A Sentence
- Even the global sea level is now half a millimeter higher than it was before the temblor.
- Yamil Gonzalez @yamilg wrote: hable con mi tia que vive en la ceiba dice que estuvo fuertísimo se asustaron bastante, los adornos y todo eso se cayeron al piso #temblorHN Global Voices in English » Honduras: Strong Earthquake Shakes Country
- Nevertheless, as if the temblor is his cue, Shit-Heel goes into a panic. Excerpt from VITAL FLUID, published by Enigmatic Ink
- The temblor, which injured almost 600 people, hit the northernmost island of Hokkaido hardest, but swayed buildings as far away as Tokyo, about 830 km to the southeast.
- There have been over 500 aftershocks since the temblor, causing interruptions in the rescue effort.
- For earthquakes, as weather, the long-range perspective is perhaps more useful from the standpoint of how to withstand the power of large temblors over long stretches of time.
- The temblor was the fifth in the past two days to hit the region, and major aftershocks can be expected for months, possibly even a year. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- OTHER TERMS: The word temblor not trembler is a synonym for earthquake. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
- The temblor also damaged hundreds of houses and buildings, including the local legislative council building and several churches and mosques, and five bridges.
- The quake was the first major temblor to take place on land, and away from a tectonic plate boundary, since the invention of the modern seismometer in the 1880s.