aftershock / ˈæf tərˌʃɒk, ˈɑf- /

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aftershock 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a small earthquake or tremor that follows a major earthquake.
  2. the effect, result, or repercussion of an event; aftermath; consequence: The aftershock of the bankruptcy was felt throughout the financial community.

aftershock 近义词

aftershock

等同于 quake

aftershock

等同于 after-effect

更多aftershock例句

  1. That will be very important to assess what might be coming next, and in particular to better understand what the aftershocks are telling us.
  2. So within 30 seconds of an aftershock, we know exactly where it happened, what was the magnitude and the depth and so on.
  3. Data collected by those volunteers have already proved invaluable to tracking the most recent quake and its aftershocks, says geologist Dominique Boisson of the University of Haiti in Port-au-Prince.
  4. The minimum-wage hike is important here, but perhaps more consequential are the aftershocks the latter move would create for both parties in the future when they are relegated to the minority.
  5. For three months now I have not been able to recover from the aftershock from the recent events in Belarus.
  6. Kimye Heads Back to Vogue: Brace yourselves for the aftershock.
  7. One aftershock was significant enough—6.6 magnitude—that some seismologists were describing it as a secondary, full-blown quake.