"mild earthquake" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an earthquake that is not particularly strong or severe. For example, "The scientists recorded a mild earthquake in the region last night."
(AP) HORNELL: TWO MILD EARTHQUAKES -- A mild earthquake shook western New York on Saturday afternoon.
Earlier this month, Mr. Chávez reacted angrily to Globovisión's coverage of a mild earthquake here in which the network reported news of the event before state media did.
A mild earthquake in the Alaska Range, measuring 2.99 on the Richter scale, was causing the Earth Drums to pound more loudly and go deeper in register.
The Sheraton rocked back and forth, as if there had been a mild earthquake, and the windows buckled but didn't break.
As for fears, I don't think about security much at all, except, say, when a mild earthquake rolls a deck I'm sitting on as I'm eating lunch, and I wonder if "it" is finally happening again.
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No one blamed Enron for the wave of mild earthquakes that jostled Southern California last week.
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Mild earthquakes, likewise, have periodically hit the Washington, D.C. area since at least 1758.
As the millennium is about to come to a close, the planet has recently begun experiencing mild earthquakes as well as seeing images of Ardra in the skies.
Despite climatic influences on sediment production and transport, this study shows that tectonism can provide a dominant control on bedrock erosion rate and relief production in unglaciated mountain belts, even in intraplate settings where rates of crustal deformation are mild and earthquake activity is episodic.
