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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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Noun

Today, the mechanisms that contained the initial energy shock are faltering.

— RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
Rate hikes can't easily fix supply-side issues like the prolonged energy shock taking place right now.

— Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of shock

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Advertisement Thus, the crisis of liberal democracy after 9/11 might be better understood not simply as a blowback from the war on terror, but as an aftershock of socialism’s collapse.

— Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
An aftershock that struck during an interview Tuesday prompted Vincentius Rano and his wife to instinctively duck and cover their heads.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of aftershock

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Residents reported experiencing the quake in several cities, including Walnut Creek, Manteca and Pleasanton according to the USGS DYFI report.

— CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Earthquakes are uncommon in the Brevard area, with only one other quake documented in the past 26 years.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of quake

Noun

Fewer than a dozen people from as far away as Walnut Creek and Stockton immediately reported feeling the tremor to the agency.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
The disease is marked by symptoms including tremor, stiffness, slow movement, gait and balance problems.

— Deborah Day, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tremor

Noun

By 1926, Caltech was running the Seismo Lab with the Carnegie Institution, where seismologists like Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter would deepen our understanding of earthquakes.

— Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2026
But among their best qualities, Dick Riordan was arrogantly confident, Jim Hahn had a steady hand on the tiller, Antonio Villaraigosa was tireless and passionate, Eric Garcetti was a long-range thinker on earthquakes, water and energy.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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