temblorn.
/tɛmˈblɔː/, U.S. /ˈtɛmblər/, /ˈtɛmˌblɔr/ south-west. U.S.
An earthquake.
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1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy v. xvii. 288 The temblor has swallowed him.
1896 Land of Sunshine July 72 One freshet of one Ohio river a dozen years ago took more lives than all the temblores in California in a century and a half have taken.
1932 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. ii. 147 One of the features of construction that insured the life of that building in the terrific temblor of 1922.
1950 Los Angeles Times 3 Jan. 1/6 The temblor was reported from both Ogden and Logan.
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