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  2. Aftershock - Wikipedia

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    In seismology, an aftershock is a smaller earthquake that follows a larger earthquake, in the same area of the main shock, caused as the displaced crust adjusts to the effects of the main shock. Large earthquakes can have hundreds to thousands of instrumentally detectable aftershocks, which steadily decrease in magnitude and frequency according ...

  3. Mainshock - Wikipedia

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    In seismology, an aftershock is a smaller earthquake that follows a larger earthquake, in the same area of the main shock, caused as the displaced crust adjusts to the effects of the main shock. Large earthquakes can have hundreds to thousands of instrumentally detectable aftershocks, which steadily decrease in magnitude and frequency according ...

  4. Aftershocks Continue After Northern California Earthquake ...

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    An earthquake prompted a tsunami warning in California ... "The USGS estimates that there could be an aftershock of M5+. ... "This earthquake moved the ground sideways," Bohon explained in her ...

  5. Modern earthquakes in US could be aftershocks from ... - AOL

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    Aftershocks from devastating earthquakes in the 1800s near the Missouri-Kentucky border and in Charleston, South Carolina, may still be occurring, a study found.

  6. Aftershocks as strong as Turkey's 2nd quake are rare ... - AOL

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    The 7.5-magnitude tremor that struck Turkey on Monday after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake was an unusually strong aftershock, according to seismologists.. Aftershocks are typically about 1.2 ...

  7. Earthquake - Wikipedia

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    An aftershock is an earthquake that occurs after a previous earthquake, the mainshock. Rapid changes of stress between rocks, and the stress from the original earthquake are the main causes of these aftershocks, [34] along with the crust around the ruptured fault plane as it adjusts to the effects of the mainshock. [31]

  8. What the New Jersey earthquake tells us about the fault ... - AOL

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    A view of New York City after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of New York and New Jersey. ... there was a 38% chance of an aftershock measuring magnitude 3.0 ... some shaking level ...

  9. Types of earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Submarine earthquake, an earthquake that occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, especially an ocean. [17] Supershear earthquake, an earthquake in which the propagation of the rupture along the fault surface occurs at speeds in excess of the seismic shear wave (S-wave) velocity, causing an effect analogous to a sonic boom. [18]