temblor
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The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor that did not happen.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
The largest was a magnitude 4.0 temblor at 3:30 p.m., which was followed eight minutes later by a magnitude 3.1 temblor, then at 4:04 p.m. by a magnitude 3.4 earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025
The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor in Carson City, Nev., that did not actually happen.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Scientists believe that the magnitude 6.1 Joshua Tree temblor of April 22, 1992 resulted in aftershocks that kept migrating north.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
Flood and drought, temblor and conflagration, boom and panic—each comes in "the day's work," and each alike finds him alert, hopeful, resourceful and unafraid.
From California and the Californians by Jordan, David Starr
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