Yet its politics are lively, and the very land has malaria, as you might say; it has periodic shakes, earthquakes, "tremblors," they call them, or "trembloritos," according to size. ❋ Arthur Willis Colton (N/A)
Seismologists concluded that giant earthquakes can trigger distant small tremblors but not large quakes. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And Thirteen, although the buildings were not even observed to move at all when the planes crashed into them, nearby geological observatories detected seismic tremblors as if there had been massive explosions at ground level when the buildings collapsed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Beltar shifted his weight silently, and another set of tremblors raced through the ground toward Sarron. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1995)
And when they'd once taken that idea, it made no difference if they'd felt little motors every few days all their lives, and trembloritos and tremblors pretty frequent. ❋ Arthur Willis Colton (N/A)
Titiaca gossiped, and told us the keeper was a magician, and master of the winds, and probably the bestower of rain and sunshine, and certain his light in the tower was connected underground with one of the volcanoes, so that he could tap different grades of earthquakes, graded as "motors, trembloritos, and tremblors," according to size. ❋ Arthur Willis Colton (N/A)
Manhattan Island, from whence the rest of the country derives its panics, its jazz tremblors and its girl shows, develops a severe sinking sensation in the pit of its financial stomach, accompanied by acute darting pains at the juncture of Broad and Wall. ❋ Tony Sarg (1910)
LONDON - Earthquake experts have warned that the devastating quake that struck Haiti on January 12 could be the first of several in the region, which means the region is at risk of more large tremblors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It follows a series of tremblors that struck Southern California over the weekend, including a pair of moderate earthquakes that rattled a desert area east of San Diego. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But ever prepared for heavy tremblors, the Land of the Rising Sun seems, once more, to have emerged without so much as a scratch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
How a baseball outfielder gets to the right place at the right time to catch a fly ball LONDON - Earthquake experts have warned that the devastating quake that struck Haiti on January 12 could be the first of several in the region, which means the region is at risk of more large tremblors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The same thing happened in the 1703 earthquake: two or three months of minor tremblors and then the big one."
Wallis said some of his friends who live outside of town have felt some of the other tremblors but were unaffected by the two that have shaken his own house the hardest. ❋ Unknown (2009)
