aftershock

Example Sentences

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Last year’s 12-day war was followed by an inevitable aftershock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

A powerful 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines late Friday, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an earlier warning was lifted, authorities said.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

The aftershock is probably more memorable than the piece.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

They may have been feeling the first aftershock — a magnitude 4.5 that occurred less than a minute after the magnitude 5.2 quake.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

I’m then slapped with what feels like a gigantic wall of sunsum—an aftershock of the undoubtedly massive amount of power that Amokye holds.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer