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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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


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