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Example sentences for: aftershocks
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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.
The day after Taiwan's massive earthquake, newspapers reported that there had already been more than 2,000 aftershocks.
There have been more than 6,000 aftershocks, including one that registered 6.8.
There have been more than 250 aftershocks.
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.