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Recent Examples of foreshock
The second quake is considered the mainshock, while the first was a foreshock, USGS said.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Jones says that this most recent set of quakes could be foreshocks for a much larger event.
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
But conventionally, only half of earthquakes have an easily detectable foreshock, while the other half do not.
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Los Angeles Times,
Boston Herald,
22 Dec. 2025
Lesser-magnitude quakes have previously been foreshocks to larger-magnitude ones.
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Chad De Guzman,
Time,
9 Dec. 2025
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Jones says that this most recent set of quakes could be foreshocks for a much larger event.
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
But conventionally, only half of earthquakes have an easily detectable foreshock, while the other half do not.
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshock
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Season 3 of the series returned with a bloody episode and a skyrocketing death toll, which continues to rise, as the rival Targaryen factions clashed in the shock-and-awe-inspiring Battle of the Gullet.
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Rosenqvist’s departure was a bit of a shock, but Scott Dixon decision to leave Chip Ganassi Racing after 25 years with the team was of seismic proportions.
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Jorge Rodríguez said there were no reports of additional damage, but the latest aftershock sent residents in the capital of Caracas screaming into the streets.
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Jorge Rodríguez said there were no reports of additional damage, but the latest aftershock sent residents in the capital, Caracas, screaming into the streets.
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Decades of Hollywood empire-building ended with a quake in 2017 when Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch decided to sell much of his Fox entertainment holdings amid the rise of Netflix and other tech giants.
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And six days after the quakes, rescuers brought out a toddler alive—a reminder that hope in these operations is not a sentiment but a procedure, sustained one careful excavation at a time.
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Nearly 2,000 people are confirmed dead, with tens of thousands still missing following the tremors.
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Many remain unwilling to return to homes that survived the initial earthquakes but may now be structurally compromised by the continuing tremors.
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As a reminder, the Mission San Juan Capistrano tour ends at the ruins of what’s now called the Great Stone Church, which collapsed in an 1812 earthquake that killed 40 Acjachemen worshippers.
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It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
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“Foreshock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshock. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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