Word: temblor
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Chills & Jitters. Earthquakes are the most persistent of Mother Earth's ailments, and the most mysterious. Mongolian lamas used to assure their followers that the world rests on the back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks...
...iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...
Japan had neglected anti-quake building construction for war implement production. Landsberg said, "when the sleeping monster" beneath the islands once more awakens Japan stands to suffer a loss equal to, if not greater than, that resulting from the 1923 temblor...
G.O.P. Chairman Joe Martin felt a stomach-chilling temblor when anti-Willkie feeling in Congress and the party, rumbling, hissing, giving off steam, threatened to split the party...
Mild was the temblor felt in Mexico's capital compared with the spasm that shook provincial cities. Mexico City, reclaimed from swamp, rests on a shock-absorbing cushion of mud. The earthquake's center was on the Pacific Coast, between Manzanillo and the beach resort of Acapulco. From there it spread fanwise through the hills, north to Jalisco, south to Oaxaca...