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    EARTH TREMOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A small earthquakeplay

    Synonyms:

    earth tremor; microseism; tremor

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    Hypernyms ("earth tremor" is a kind of...):

    earthquake; quake; seism; temblor (shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earth tremor"):

    aftershock (a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake)

    foreshock (a tremor preceding an earthquake)

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