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Some faults, such as the San Andreas in Southern California, are seismically active long after a major quake and can experience aftershocks up to a decade later.
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.
But most aftershocks happen soon after the primary quake.
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.
The WP continues to mine the aftershocks of the AOL Time Warner merger, saying the incident has revived European anxiety about technological inferiority: Europeans are far less likely than Americans to be wired, and e-commerce revenues in the 15 EU nations are only a third of what they are in the U.S.