temblor

The temblor jolted the area at 12:13 a.m., with an epicenter about three miles south-southeast of Compton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

"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

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

Then, as he crouched, the temblor increased again.

From The Flaming Mountain by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

In Playa Grande, the temblors spared few buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The temblors have coincided with viral panic stemming from the 2021 reprint of a comic book that many are now interpreting as a clairvoyant prediction of a major earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

A hypothetical magnitude 9.3 earthquake from Alaska — similar in scale to the monstrous 1964 tsunami-generating temblor — would offer six hours of warning; large temblors from Chile could provide 13 hours of warning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

In a valley among volcanoes, where the smoke from no less than six cones could be seen at once, temblors would not do damage.

From Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster