TopicEarthquake
temblor · /temˈbloɾ/
temblor
temblor/temˈbloɾ/noun
shaking movement of the ground, often mild
movimiento de sacudida del suelo, a menudo leve
News may call a light quake a tremor before magnitude is known.
Las noticias pueden llamar temblor a un sismo leve antes de conocer la magnitud.
Examples
A light tremor woke people just after midnight.
Glass rattled during the tremor but nothing fell.
Sensors recorded the tremor across three provinces.
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