A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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temblor
An earthquake. In California and the American Southwest, temblor is used interchangeably with “earthquake” in both journalism and conversation, a linguistic inheritance from the Spanish-speaking culture that named the landscape first.
Etymology
Spanish, from temblar, to tremble, from Latin tremulare. The word is a trembling — not the cause, not the mechanism, but the sensation.