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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A faint earth tremor caused by natural phenomena, such as winds and strong ocean waves.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A slight or weak earthquake-tremor.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A faint earth tremor caused by natural phenomena, such as wind.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small earthquake

Examples

  • “When one of these waves interacts with the sea bottom, it produces a small tremor, or microseism , that travels thousands of miles through the solid Earth at about 2.5 miles per second.”

    Wired: Things That Make the Earth Go Hm

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  1. seism
  1. earthquake
  1. quake
  1. temblor

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  1. foreshock
  1. aftershock

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