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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A faint earth tremor caused by natural phenomena, such as winds and strong ocean waves.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A slight or weak earthquake-tremor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus.

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  • noun A faint earth tremor caused by natural phenomena, such as wind.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small earthquake

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  • When one of these waves interacts with the sea bottom, it produces a small tremor, or microseism , that travels thousands of miles through the solid Earth at about 2.5 miles per second.

    Things That Make the Earth Go Hm Stephen Leahy 2005

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  • The old man was shriveled and wizened,

    The lassie however was lithesome.

    I’ve heard it reported

    The ways she contorted

    Brought on a discreet microseism.

    July 17, 2018