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Example sentences for: mainshock

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In the three hours following Taiwan's mainshock, for example, there were only seven quakes that would have done more than lightly rattle dishes.
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.
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).