aftershock

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Recent Examples of aftershock The earthquake occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time on Friday, and it was followed 11 minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2025 How travelers can help Several organizations are working to help the communities affected by the earthquake and aftershocks. Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025 Rescue efforts are underway and emergency services are on alert for aftershocks. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025 Earthquake insurance can cover damage to the physical structure of your home and other non-attached structures caused by tremors or aftershocks. Liz Knueven, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aftershock
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Noun
  • Officers evacuated students from classrooms, as students walked away in shock.
    Graham Hurley, Aaron Fisher and Katherine Jennings, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Julian arrives at the bank as Olympia is standing in the vault, looking at the papers in shock.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The studio even came up with the perfect counterprogramming for Oppenheimer: It was called Coyote vs Acme, basking in the afterglow of Looney Tunes.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But in the afterglow of this title, which took so much longer, at the end of road strewn with more disappointments than most of the others, this does not feel like that moment.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Footage posted to social media from Istanbul showed people running and screaming in the moments after the biggest quake.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • At least seven aftershocks were immediately reported after the initial quake, CBS Los Angeles reported, with the strongest one registering at 4.0-magnitude.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These early indicators are warning us of a pending leadership crisis that will have repercussions for all sectors and industries.
    Ruth Oh Reitmeier, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • With its collection of more than nine million objects, the Virginia museum — itself nearly 200 years old — seems well positioned to tackle the American Revolution, with all its repercussions, achievements and contradictions.
    John Hanc, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It had been preceded by a 3.3-magnitude foreshock on Sunday, seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones told KCBS.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The quake was preceded by 14 foreshock events, Cochran said.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the rawest struggle for many is the fallout from marital infidelity.
    Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2025
  • But those top economic aides have found themselves in the spotlight as economists warn of the potential fallout of Trump’s policies.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Though Istanbul did not suffer from those tremors, over 53,000 were killed in Turkey and another 6,000 people in Syria.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • In Parkinson’s patients, these neurons are slowly destroyed as the disease progresses, which eventually affects their mobility and causes the disease’s tell-tale tremors.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike Duke University, appliance company Bosch is happy to be associated with the unhinged Ratliff patriarch (Jason Isaacs) in the denouement of The White Lotus Season 3.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Such was the case this past weekend, when tens of millions of fans keyed in on the denouement of the college basketball season at the expense of lesser spectacles such as spring football and one notoriously schismatic pro golf startup.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Apr. 2025

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