earth tremor

1. 1.

   a small earthquake

   Synonymstremormicroseism

   Broaderearthquake

   Narroweraftershockforeshock

Questions about earth tremor

What does earth tremor mean?

earth tremor means "a small earthquake".

What is another word for earth tremor?

Close synonyms include tremor, microseism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earth tremor a common word?

earth tremor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.