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foreshock

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as in shock

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Recent Examples of foreshock The second quake is considered the mainshock, while the first was a foreshock, USGS said. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 June 2026 Jones says that this most recent set of quakes could be foreshocks for a much larger event. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026 But conventionally, only half of earthquakes have an easily detectable foreshock, while the other half do not. — Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 22 Dec. 2025 Lesser-magnitude quakes have previously been foreshocks to larger-magnitude ones. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 9 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreshock

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The two shocks in this article, the war and the weather, have already drawn blood in Kenya.

— Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
The manufacturer has received 555 customer reports of the products melting, sparking and smoking, resulting in 27 fires and 15 burn or electrical shock injuries, the agency said.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of shock

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When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake.

— William B. Davis, New York Times, 9 July 2026
Every time there is an aftershock—and there have been many—my mother calls me.

— Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026

Definition of aftershock

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The mall was evacuated when the quake struck, NHK News reported, adding that there appeared to have been an explosion in the earthquake's aftermath.

— Jon Haworth, ABC News, 29 July 2026
The quake struck Tuesday afternoon in Kumamoto prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuation from coastal areas.

— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 29 July 2026

Definition of quake

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More than 500 people from as far away as Pleasanton and Glenbrook, Nevada, reported feeling the tremor to the agency.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
Residents in the areas that felt the biggest tremors must beware of further strong quakes for about a week as well as the risk of landslides, an official for the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Definition of tremor

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What began as one employee's devastating loss quickly grew into a community-wide effort to help earthquake victims in Venezuela.

— Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Venezuela’s fragile health care system had been deteriorating for years before two powerful earthquakes rattled the South American nation last month, killing more than 5,000 people and further exacerbating its ongoing health crisis.

— Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 31 July 2026

Definition of earthquake

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