tremblor -- antedating

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Wed Nov 10 07:15:59 UTC 2004


tremblor: An earthquake or earth tremor.  (OED 1913)

from the front cover of _Popular Mechanics_, June 1906 online at:
http://popularmechanics.com/albums/index.phtml?mode=view&album=1906&pic=1906
06.jpg&dispsize=400&start=0

"seismograph record of the tremblor" [re: the San Francisco earthquake]



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