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Suddenly, without warning, at the offertory, destruction broke. There came a shock; a pause of terror; another shock, that made the solid walls rock to and fro; a terrible cry, "El temblor!" and in panic the people rose from their knees and rushed toward the door. A third shock came, heavier than the other two; and cornices and masses of plaster began to fall.
Lockley guessed automatically at half a dozen possible causes for the small rock-slide, but he did not think at all of an unperceived temblor from a shock like high explosives going off thirty miles away. Eight minutes later he heard a deep-toned roaring noise to the northeast. It was unbelievably low-pitched. It rolled and reverberated beyond the horizon.
She was always very sweet, our Concha, but there never was a time when you could take a liberty with her. "No ship came, but something else did an earthquake! Ay yi, what an earthquake that was! Not a temblor but a terremoto. The whole Presidio came down.
He is as generous as the best, and takes what the Fates send him with cheerful enthusiasm. Flood and drought, temblor and conflagration, boom and panic each comes in "the day's work," and each alike finds him alert, hopeful, resourceful and unafraid. The typical Californian has largely outgrown provincialism. He has seen much of the world, and he knows the varied worth of varied lands.
"But WHAT has happened?" said Hurlstone, interposing to relieve his companion. "We fancied something" "Something! he says something! ah, that something was a temblor! An earthquake! The earth has shaken himself. Look!" She pointed with her fan to the shore, where the sea had suddenly returned in a turbulence of foam and billows that was breaking over the base of the cross they had just quitted.
That morning Alvarado and several members of the Junta had arrived, but not Estenega. He had come as far as the Rancho Temblor, Alvarado explained, and there, meeting some old friends, had decided to remain over night and accompany them the next day to the ceremony.
For a moment, as if a supernatural hand were painfully lifting it from its inmost core, the earth rocked and heaved through all Venezuela; and then, almost before the awful exclamation, El temblor! had time to burst from the lips of that stricken nation, it bounded from the bonds that held it, and in a moment was quaking, heaving, sliding, surging, rolling, in awful semblance to the sea.
Stone-pegs are often found alternating with niches and placed on a level with the lintels of the niches. Temblor: A slight earthquake. Temporales: Small fields of grain which cannot be irrigated and so depend on the weather for their moisture. Teniente gobernador: Administrative officer of a small village or hamlet. Terremoto: A severe earthquake. Tesoro: Treasure.
When there is an earthquake or a "temblor," to use the Spanish name it is the rock foundation that is disturbed, not the sand, which, indeed, serves to lessen the effect of the earth tremor. Leaving the region of the hills and descending from their crescent-shaped expanse, we find a broad extent of low ground, sloping gently toward the bay.
The ground quivered very faintly as he rose. It was not an earthquake. It was merely a temblor, such as anyone would expect to feel occasionally with six smoking volcanic cones in view. The green stuff all around was proof that it could be disregarded. In the United States, some two-hundred-odd light-years away, it happened to be Tuesday.