Temblors

And a series of even small quakes can trigger temblors on nearby fault lines.

It was followed minutes later by a pair of 2.6 temblors.

On Sunday morning, they woke up shivering from the biting wind and decided to return to their third-floor apartment, thinking that the temblors were finally over.

The death toll from the temblors, the biggest of which was 7.8, is expected to rise, as countries around the world pledge aid.

A powerful rush-hour earthquake that rocked Taiwan, one of the best-prepared locations in the world for temblors, on Wednesday morning could provide crucial lessons for Southern California.

A magnitude-6 aftershock rattled Puerto Rico on Saturday morning, days after temblors caused widespread damage and power outages on the island, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

These shakers wouldn't necessarily have felt like magnitude 3 or 4 temblors on Earth because they originated far deeper than such quakes typically do on this planet.

RIDGECREST, Calif. (KABC) -- A magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattled the Ridgecrest area Thursday evening, a region rocked by two powerful temblors in July, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

However, the region remains acutely alert to temblors that might trigger tsunamis.

The south American country is no stranger to temblors.

These are large scale temblors that have seismic magnitudes as high as 6.1.