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Example sentences for: aftershocks
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--Homeless Turkish carpenter Yusuf Okul, who often wields a hammer, reacts to recent aftershocks.
Japan must reform its banks and maintain loose fiscal and monetary policy (even though that means a cheapened yen), or the rest of the world will soon feel the aftershocks of its recession.
But most aftershocks happen soon after the primary quake.
In fact, seismologists have a rough method for predicting the number of aftershocks on a given day: It declines in inverse proportion to the time since the mainshock (i.e., day four has one-fourth the number of quakes as day one).
Thousands of people were left homeless, and countless churches and public buildings were forced to close as aftershocks continued through the early days of October.