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After the shock of feeling an earthquake rattle your home fades a bit, what do you need to do to check for damage and make sure your family is safe?
Aftershocks are possible in the following days, months or years after Friday's 4.8 magnitude earthquake, which was felt throughout parts of New York.
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 ...
On Thursday, December 5, residents of Northern California experienced a large earthquake. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred just over 60 ...
Preparations for earthquakes can consist of survival measures, preparation that will improve survival in the event of an earthquake, or mitigating measures, that seek to minimise the effect of an earthquake. Common survival measures include storing food and water for an emergency, and educating individuals what to do during an earthquake. [1]
After an earthquake, the OES advises those affected by the earthquake to: Be alert to other possible hazards such as downed power lines. Expect possible aftershocks.
A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space. The designation of an earthquake as foreshock, mainshock or aftershock is only possible after the full sequence of events has happened. [4]
More than 42% of the 3,656 people that Japanese researchers surveyed in the 12 weeks following massive earthquakes in Kumamoto in 2016 said they felt an “illusion sway” after the quakes.