How to Use temblor in a Sentence

temblor

noun

• 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
• The temblor was recorded at a depth of about 3 miles (5.5 kilometers).
  — Fox News, 18 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Less than a week later, a 4.2 temblor rippled out from the San Bernardino area.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• 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
• There is some sound science connecting Earth's temblors and the moon.
  — Author: Shannon Hall, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2018
• There is some sound science connecting Earth’s temblors and the moon.
  — Shannon Hall, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• The agency says the island doesn't face a tsunami threat after the temblor struck around 12:44 p.m. Friday.
  — CBS News, 25 May 2018
• The temblor was recorded in the Blanco Fracture Zone at a depth of 10 kilometers.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
• The largest of the Mount Hood quakes was a 2.1 magnitude temblor, which officials said was likely too small to be felt.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, oregonlive.com, 12 July 2019
• And nearly three decades after the temblor, this civic bet is beginning to take shape.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• 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 temblors are very likely linked to new forms of oil and natural gas drilling technology that allow companies to drill first down into the earth and then horizontally along an oil formation.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 July 2024
• Over that time period, Jones said, there was an average of eight to 10 independent sequences of earthquakes annually that included at least one temblor of magnitude 4 or greater.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024