tremor的意思|tremor的解释-里氏词典

tremor ['tremә]

n. 震动, 颤动

[医] 震颤

tremor

[ noun ]

an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)

<noun.act>

a small earthquake

<noun.event>

shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease)

<noun.state>

[ verb ]

shake with seismic vibrations

<verb.motion>

quake

The earth was quaking

Tremor \Tre"mor\, n. [L., from tremere to tremble. See
{Tremble}, v.]
A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory
motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or
old.

He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints.
--Harvey.

Nearly 130 miles to the north, the line traced by a wandering pencil on a seismograph at the University of Washington was first interpreted as evidence of a tremor 75 miles southeast of the dormant volcano.
The huge Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee was created by that tremor and the ground shook as far away as Washington, D.C.
The tremor, the strongest to hit Japan for almost 11 years, was felt across the country from the Pacific coast to the Sea of Japan, the national meteorological agency said.
The earthquake, 7.8-8.2 on the Richter scale, followed by a second tremor of 7.9 devastated 20 square miles of the city of Tangshan.
The tremor registered about 5.8 on the Richter scale at 1:42 a.m. AST and was centered beneath the ocean 20 miles northeast of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, said Alec Medbery of the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
A quake measuring 6 on the Richter scale can cause severe damage on land while a tremor of magnitude 7, 10 times higher in intensity, is capable of causing widespread heavy damage.
It might not be." If the death toll of 600 is accurate, this would be China's worst earthquake since the 1976 tremor that hit the northeastern city of Tangshan.
A quake measuring 6 on the scale is capable of severe damage, and a tremor measuring 7 of widespread heavy damage.
That tremor measured 5.4 and resulted in 10 injuries and minor damage in the Tokyo area.
After Iran, the next deadliest quake in the first half of 1990 was a magnitude 6.4 tremor in Peru on May 30, which claimed 135 lives.
The tremor terrified people who recalled a 1985 quake that crumbled many buildings in the capital and killed at least 9,500 people.
The tremor registered 2.3 on the Richter scale of ground motion, said Joyce Bagwell, director of the Earthquake Education Center at Baptist College at Charleston.
Firefighters in the Panamanian city of David said the tremor was felt strongly in Panama's western provinces of Chiriqui and Boca del Toro, both bordering Costa Rica, but there were no reports of damage or injuries there either.
The strongest tremor of the year occurred May 23 in the South Pacific.
The tremor measured 5.2 on the Richter scale and was centered around the town of Dhankuta, 188 miles east of Katmandu, the Seismology Laboratory of the Department of Mines reported.
The tremor also was felt by residents of Long Beach, another coastal city about 20 miles south of Los Angeles.
A magnitude 6 can cause severe damage on land while a tremor of magnitude 7 is capable of causing widespread and heavy damage.
The tremor, centred on countryside south of Swaffham, Norfolk, was felt more than 40 miles away in Colchester, Essex.
Previously, his greatest fame stemmed from the title role in "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell." A weekend tremor labeled as an earthquake was a strip-mine blast, a geologist says.
The tremor reportedly lasted 20 seconds in Ottawa.
A new tremor shook the Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan on Thursday near villages where a quake-triggered mudslide killed hundreds this week.
"Then about three seconds after the first tremor finished, just when I thought it was all over I felt another tremor.
"Then about three seconds after the first tremor finished, just when I thought it was all over I felt another tremor.
The landslide was triggered by a tremor measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale, the civil defense chief said.
The tremor was recorded at a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale and occurred at 12:37 p.m. MST.
We try to console them and tell them it's an aftershock." The tremor came as California continued to try to repair its vital transportation links, help displaced people rebuild their lives and figure out how to pay for billions of dollars in damage.
The other pools swayed from the 30-second tremor, and water spilled over the sides in small waves.
In San Juan, where about one-third of the island's 3.2 million people live, the tremor swayed some buildings and was felt for five seconds.
The tremor struck at 1:29 a.m. and registered about 2.5 to 3 on the Richter scale, according to Marvin Carlson, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
Switzerland's strongest tremor in five years, which measured 3.8 on the Richter scale, was felt mainly in the region around the Valais Alps ski resort of Crans-Montana, the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute in Zurich reported.

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