temblor
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"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 earth he turn round, and then come el temblor, the earthquake, and there you are!
From Stories in Light and Shadow by Bret Harte
In Playa Grande, the temblors spared few buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The Big Bear earthquake of 1992 was the second of a one-two punch of temblors that occurred on the same day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
The quakes in 2024 rattled the region, but damage was decidedly modest, such as items knocked off shelves, because they were relatively small temblors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 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
Not so often, perhaps, but these temblors are not unusual.
From The Flaming Mountain by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
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