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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An earth tremor, as recorded on a seismograph, which has its origin in some disturbance remote from the recording station.

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

  • noun A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument.

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