Possible Clues:

• Jolt from significant remorse
• Quake follower
• Microseism
• Something a seismograph picks up
• Effect of quake seen in backward capital? Right
• Still and all, it isn't a touch of the shakes
• It's measured on the Mercalli scale
• Vibration in centre -- more or less
• Translator tackling epic writer, not hard, from East getting thrill
• A 2 or 3 on the Richter scale, maybe