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• n  shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

• The death toll from the temblor, which shook Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures, was nine as of Tuesday, with one person reportedly still missing.
• There was no large tsunami generated by that temblordubbed the Nias quake after the island off the Sumatra coast that was worst affectedbut over a thousand islanders died.
• That night, three days after the temblor, the French managed to pull a five-year-old from the rubble.

• earthquake
• quake
• seism

News & Articles

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• Island hit by four earthquakes
  Four minor earthquakes struck Hawai`i Island on Sunday, but you probably didnt feel them. A magnitude 3.2 earthquake hit at 3:50 a.m. near Kawaihae at a depth of about 16 miles, while a 12:11 p.m., a temblor measuring 3.0 struck near the center of Mauna Kea at about the same depth.
  June 18, 2013 - KPUA AM 670 Hilo
• Magnitude-2.8 quake shakes Carson City
  A magnitude-2.8 earthquake shook the Carson City area early Sunday morning - the latest in a string of temblors there this month.
  June 17, 2013 - KTVN Reno
• New Bay Bridge span much safer than older bridge
  Engineers say the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge would be able to handle a large earthquake much better than its aging counterpart which was damaged by the Loma Prieta temblor in 1989.
  June 7, 2013 - Channel 8 San Diego

Quotes

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• John Buck in Gant Daily
  I was like, 'What's going on?'Buck told reporters afterward. "He was like, 'It's an earthquake. You don't feel it?' I was like, 'Man, I didn't even feel it.' Several other players on the field never felt the temblor, but most in the...