Meanings of first tremors in English

There were no casualties as residents left their houses when they felt the first tremors, he said.

The first tremors came and Zeus directed the remaining Lords to the western borders of the City.

How about the Arab Spring -could you hear the revolution in the first tremors of dissatisfaction?

In 2007, Ireland's long property boom ended and the first tremors were felt in the western financial system.

The first tremors are being felt.

Astonished by it even as he participated, Hurwood felt the first tremors of real awe at this impossibly prolonged coincidence.

He felt the first tremors building and felt a jolt of pleasure so pure, so sharp, it nearly stole his breath.

We were already in the decline of life when the first tremors of the earthquake that has convulsed the continent were felt.

Moments after the first tremors firefighters and volunteers scurried to save hundreds of thousands of fragments, laying them on the grass outside the church.

When the first tremors of a strange, inexplicable attraction to boys began rumbling through my body, I was in a school that was mostly Hispanic.

Scientists have heralded a "whole new era" in physics with the detection of "primordial gravitational waves" - the first tremors of the big bang.