Definition of Tremor

a weak or very slight earthquake

Examples of Tremor in a sentence

Because we live on a fault line, we feel a weak tremor that rattles the picture frames on our wall every once in a while.  🔊

Compared to a full blown earthquake, a tremor is so weak that you will probably not even feel it even if it shook the road you were walking on.  🔊

There was a slight tremor in the ground when the skyscraper they were demolishing crashed to the ground.  🔊

While a tremor is an extremely weak rumble in the Earth’s crust, if there are a lot of them in a row it could be a sign of a larger earthquake coming.  🔊

Each time the heavy Rhino’s feet crashed into the ground, it sent a rumbling tremor through the ground that I was standing on.  🔊

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