Example sentences for: aftershocks

How can you use “aftershocks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But most aftershocks happen soon after the primary quake.

  • Most large earthquakes produce thousands of aftershocks, but the majority of them are imperceptible.

  • Because the stress is rarely discharged in a single jolt, earthquakes almost always occur in clusters: first, a few small foreshocks; then the strongest quake, or mainshock; then aftershocks.

  • There have been more than 6,000 aftershocks, including one that registered 6.8.

  • --Homeless Turkish carpenter Yusuf Okul, who often wields a hammer, reacts to recent aftershocks.


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