Word: tremoring
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According to the Guatemalan Seismological Station in Guatemala City, a second tremor registered 4.5 and struck...
Vacationing Americans Robert Annadle and his wife Pam Ascanio, who were inside a pizza parlor when the initial jolt hit, said the tremor damaged Bloom Children's Hospital across the street...
...carnage was not confined to the U.S., since traders abroad are also worried about the prospects for the American economy. The tremor hit the London Stock Exchange, driving it down 27.3 on Thursday, its ninth greatest drop. In Ontario, the Toronto Stock Exchange dropped 2.4%, its largest one-day fall in 6 1/2 years. The day was "wild and woolly -- one of those rocket sessions," said Ron Woods of Merit Investment of Toronto. There was also a surge of selling on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and even a fistfight. Two young traders punched each other as they fought to execute...
Earthquakes are so common in California that many of them are hardly noticed. But this month five sizable quakes in Southern and Central California have shaken residents, demolished mobile homes and split open at least one road, creating a whole new canyon while startled vacationers watched. Last week's tremor near Bishop registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, a good rumble, and caused unusual concern because it followed so closely after the others...
Almost 80 years after the great earthquake of April 1906, which killed more than 700 people, another tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area last week. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, vs. an estimated 8.3 for the '06 temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo. Damage was minimal: some 21,000 people lost power briefly, but the San Francisco skyscrapers merely swayed, as they are designed to do. The tremor, along with another mild one the previous Saturday, was the latest in a series that has shaken the area...