How to Use temblor in a Sentence

temblor

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  • The temblor also caused a fire at the plant that led to a brief shutdown.
    — Fox News, 24 June 2020
  • The temblor hit at 9:55 a.m. and was centered in the El Sereno area, just south of South Pasadena.
    — Quakebot, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
  • With the danger passed, the temblor quickly spawned jokes, memes and even merch.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The last massive temblor there was about 4,000 years ago.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The quake was followed by a string of smaller temblors.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The temblor was felt throughout the county, the USGS said.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The temblor was felt across a wide swath of the region, but there were no reports of damage.
    — Quakebot, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • Then the county was hit by the first in a series of strong quakes, a magnitude 6.4 temblor in the wee hours of Dec. 20.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • The temblor was centered about 34 miles southwest of Oceanside, about a half-mile deep in the ocean floor.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The small temblor struck at about 9:25 p.m. just north of San Leandro.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The temblor began 9 miles beneath the earth’s surface, not far from the both the Elsinore and Aguanga faults.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • On Saturday, the island was hit again, by a temblor two times larger than the one in 2010.
    — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The temblor, felt widely around the Bay Area, was centered about four miles deep, 12 miles east of downtown San Jose.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 Oct. 2022
  • In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, a Roman-era castle crumbled as a result of the temblor.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • It was felt as far away as Egypt and Lebanon and was followed by a 5.8-magnitude temblor.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • When Monday’s temblor struck, Grandin didn’t expect to see any features atop the ground.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The temblor rumbled at a depth of about 5.7 miles, which is considered a shallow quake.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The temblor was recorded in the Blanco Fracture Zone at a depth of 10 kilometers.
    — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Haeussler said not much is known about that quake, but the Wednesday temblor seems to have re-ruptured the southwestern part of that area.
    — Mark Thiessen, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • Hours after the temblor, a second, 7.5 magnitude quake hit about 60 miles away from the epicenter of the first one.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Feb. 2023
  • This stretching produces a series of deep fractures in the ground, and movement along one of these cracks set off the recent temblor.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The quake was believed to be the biggest in Taiwan since a temblor in 1999 caused extensive damage.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The temblor revived memories of a massive quake that occurred on the same day in 2017, killing scores of people in the southern part of the country.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
  • This is the second year in a row a large quake has struck the area on Dec. 20, with last year’s 6.2 afternoon temblor hitting off the coast of Humboldt County.
    — Anna Buchmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The temblor lasted 8 seconds, long enough to get the Lakeport fire department on alert.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude temblor was close to the town of Pazarcik, in the region where Turkey borders Syria.
    — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The agency had not received any reports of people having felt the temblor.
    — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Like the earthquakes in Turkey, the Lisbon temblor came with little or no warning.
    — Mark Molesky, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Plus, if something bigger did happen, the odds are a new temblor would be only a little bigger, Hough said.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • The quake comes a little over a week after a 4.9 magnitude temblor struck to the East of Barstow and was also felt throughout much of Southern California.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2024

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