Sentence examples for temblor of from inspiring English sources

The last temblor of that size occurred at Cape Ann, off the coast of Massachusetts, in 1755.

While 3.0 is a rather large earthquake for the metropolitan New York region, a temblor of that magnitude is unlikely to cause any major damage, Mr. Kim said.

A1 Mild Quake Rattles City A temblor of about 2.4 magnitude jolted the city at 7 34 a.m., its effects felt most widely in Queens though its center was on the Upper East Side.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake, a cataclysmic temblor of magnitude 7.2, devastated the city, claimed some 6,000 lives, injured more than 30,000 persons, left some 300,000 persons homeless, and temporarily closed the world's busiest port.

It may seem strange that magnitude-7 quakes went unnoticed for so long--a temblor of similar size leveled entire towns and killed at least 15,000 in Turkey in 1999--but 1999--but 1999--butthe Whillans Ice Stream never notice the shaking.

Centered about nine miles south of wine country's Napa at 3 20 a.m., the earthquake was the largest to strike the Bay Area since the 6.9 Loma Prieta temblor of 1989, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and it lasted 10 to 20 seconds, depending on "where you were located exactly".

The temblors of humor that ripple through Mr. Foxx's portrayal come so fast they seem illusory.

The area registered quakes estimated to have exceeded 7.0 in magnitude in 1811 and 1812, and is known for somewhat more regular temblors of lesser intensity.

The number of temblors of magnitude 3.0 or higher surged from 41 in 2010 to 623 last year, according to Oklahoma state records.

Well, actually, you can tell right off the bat by the fact that Californians mostly use the correct "temblor" (instead of the scientifically-incorrect "trembler") when talking about a quake.

Near the undersea source of the temblor, about 375 kilometers north-northeast of Tokyo, and southeast of that epicenter, where much of the quakes energy was focused, the height of the tsunami wave likely exceeded 2.5 meters (depicted in black).