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aftershock

/af-ter-shok, ahf-/US // ˈæf tərˌʃɒk, ˈɑf- //UK // (ˈɑːftəˌʃɒk) //

余震,余波,残震

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • That will be very important to assess what might be coming next, and in particular to better understand what the aftershocks are telling us.

  • So within 30 seconds of an aftershock, we know exactly where it happened, what was the magnitude and the depth and so on.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • For three months now I have not been able to recover from the aftershock from the recent events in Belarus.

  • Kimye Heads Back to Vogue: Brace yourselves for the aftershock.

  • One aftershock was significant enough—6.6 magnitude—that some seismologists were describing it as a secondary, full-blown quake.