temblor

"He's always thinking about the house. He keeps saying I should take him to see it," said the 27-year-old whose workplace, a carwash, also fell to pieces in the temblor.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

The temblor sparked several fires, collapsed buildings, damaged bridges -- including part of one pedestrian walkway that collapsed into a river -- and capsized a freight train.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Then, 39 seconds later, an even stronger 7.5-magnitude temblor struck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

But just 39 seconds after it started, an even more powerful magnitude 7.5 temblor struck, making a catastrophic disaster even worse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

The man was paralyzed, not knowing what it was, but the girl, bred in an earthquake country, clasped her hands over her skull and bent, crouching low and screaming, "El temblor!"

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner

In Playa Grande, the temblors spared few buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Small temblors are also common around the Geysers geothermal steam field in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

A hypothetical magnitude 9.3 earthquake from Alaska — similar in scale to the monstrous 1964 tsunami-generating temblor — would offer six hours of warning; large temblors from Chile could provide 13 hours of warning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025

What precisely is fueling the sequence of shakers is not entirely clear, and officials warn that prior seismic activity does not necessarily mean more powerful temblors are imminent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

But there were fewer temblors after it, and no shocks at all.

From Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster