TopicEarthquake
secousse · /sə.kus/
secousse
secousse/sə.kus/noun
shaking movement of the ground, often mild
mouvement de secousse du sol, souvent léger
News may call a light quake a tremor before magnitude is known.
Les infos peuvent appeler une secousse légère une secousse avant la magnitude.
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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