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Trembler vs Earthquake - What's the difference?

trembler | earthquake |

As nouns the difference between trembler and earthquake

is that trembler is one who, or that which, trembles while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

trembler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, trembles.
  • Any of various New World passerine birds of the family Mimidae .

    • Derived terms

    * knee-trembler ----

    earthquake

    English

    (wikipedia earthquake)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
    • Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
  • * 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
    • Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.

    Synonyms

    * earthdin * quake * seism * temblor * terremote * tremblor * tremor

    Derived terms

    * earthquake-prone

    Related terms

    * moonquake * seaquake * starquake

    See also

    * aftershock * earthquake engineering * fault line * Richter scale * seismic * seismograph * seismologist * seismology * tremor * tsunami