
Is Handler personifying the earthquake (using anthropomorphism)? But if she is personifying earthquakes--giving them human qualities--why would such a fearsome "type" such as an earthquake tremble?
Handler, a normally articulate funny lady, drew

Temblor is taken from Spanish which takes the root from medieval latin tremulare, literally to tremble. Thus, it's easy to understand the mistake, which itself registers a magnitude of perhaps 2.0 on the Richter Scale.
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