Examples of temblor in a Sentence
a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
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The midday temblor with an epicenter near Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city, was followed by a strong 6.4 magnitude aftershock.
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
What’s more, several smaller temblors struck the same area in 1959 and 1960, around the time the light was first observed.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Sunday’s quake comes two days after three temblors shook the San Francisco Peninsula on Friday, with magnitudes of 3.6, 2.5 and 2.9 and epicenters 3 miles to 4 miles northwest of the San Francisco Zoo, according to the USGS.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
California's continuous temblor risk coincides with a huge earthquake brewing along the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
What’s more, several smaller temblors struck the same area in 1959 and 1960, around the time the light was first observed.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Sunday’s quake comes two days after three temblors shook the San Francisco Peninsula on Friday, with magnitudes of 3.6, 2.5 and 2.9 and epicenters 3 miles to 4 miles northwest of the San Francisco Zoo, according to the USGS.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
California's continuous temblor risk coincides with a huge earthquake brewing along the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 8 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for temblor
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“Temblor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temblor. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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