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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aftershock
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The war and its aftershocks had a profound effect on people here and abroad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A third aftershock of the Six-Day War took place half a world away, in the Soviet Union.
▪ I feel the aftershock of this article for days.
▪ Nicola Giandomenico said it appeared more stones fell from the roof and the facade during the latest aftershock.
▪ She was still trembling, tiny aftershocks of excitement tingling inside her.
▪ The aftershocks intensify threefold each time.
▪ The second shock, like an aftershock, was that they would not get this money either.
▪ To cope with the aftershock, Mr Perez has made himself unpopular by bringing in painful economic reforms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aftershock

also after-shock, 1894, from after + shock (n.1).

Wiktionary
aftershock

n. 1 An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock"). 2 (context figuratively English) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.

WordNet
aftershock

n. a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake

Wikipedia
Aftershock

An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock. If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the aftershock is redesignated as the main shock and the original main shock is redesignated as a foreshock. Aftershocks are formed as the crust around the displaced fault plane adjusts to the effects of the main shock.

Aftershock (disambiguation)

An aftershock is a small-magnitude earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake.

Aftershock may also refer to:

Aftershock (comics)

Aftershock (Allison Dillon) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character initially appears in the Spider-Girl series. She is the daughter of Max Dillon in the MC2 timeline.

Aftershock (band)
Not to be confused with the British R&B group of the same name that was active in the 1990s

Aftershock (sometimes stylized AfTeRshOck or AFTeRSHOCK) was a metalcore band based out of Boston, Massachusetts. The band was formed in 1992 by the Dutkiewicz brothers, and broke up in mid-1999 shortly after Adam Dutkiewicz formed Killswitch Engage. In 2001, after a 2-year hiatus, the group re-formed for a reunion tour in Japan. After the band's last effort, the release of the " Live In Japan EP" in 2004, the group officially broke up. The band also consisted of past and present members of Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall. The group is best known for its hit 2001 single from the Five Steps From Forever EP, " For Those Of You Who Kill".

Aftershock (Average White Band album)

Aftershock is the tenth album by the R&B band Average White Band.

Aftershock (Law & Order)

"Aftershock" is the 134th episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order, and the season finale of the sixth season. It originally aired on 22 May 1996.

"Aftershock" is notable because it abandons the typical Law & Order story structure of the police-procedural followed by legal proceedings. Rather than chronicling an investigation, the episode accompanies each of the characters in the aftermath of an execution by lethal injection.

Aftershock (2010 film)

Aftershock is a 2010 Chinese disaster- drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and produced by Huayi Brothers, starring Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Chen Daoming, Lu Yi, Zhang Guoqiang and Li Chen. The film depicts the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. It was released in China on 22 July 2010, and is the first "big commercial film" IMAX film created outside the United States. The film was a major box office success, and has grossed more than US$100 million at the Chinese box office.

Aftershock (2012 film)

Aftershock is a 2012 Chilean-American disaster horror film starring Eli Roth. It is directed by Nicolás López and written by López, Roth, and Guillermo Amoedo, from a story by Roth and López.

Aftershock (Motörhead album)

Aftershock is the twenty-first studio album by Motörhead. Originally expected to be released in mid-2013, it was released separately on the 18 October in Germany, on the 21 October in the rest of Europe, and on the 22 October in North America and the rest of the world. It is the fourth album released under the UDR GmbH / Motörhead Music collaboration, with ADA as the distributor for the first time.

Aftershock (1990 film)

Aftershock is a 1990 action/ science fiction film directed by Frank Harris, written by Michael Standing, starring James Lew and Michael Standing. It was distributed through Universal Pictures.

Aftershock (Cash Cash song)

"Aftershock" is a song recorded by the American electronic music group Cash Cash for their fourth studio album, " Blood, Sweat & 3 Years". The song features Jacquie Lee, the runner up of Season 5 of NBC's singing competition, The Voice.

"Aftershock" was released through Beatport on 29 January 2016, and is the album's sixth single. The song has gained over 3 million streams on Spotify.

Usage examples of "aftershock".

All of the big quakes and aftershocks are noted, those are the public ones, the ones the perps know.

When it is displayed at the slowest rate, literally hundreds of aftershocks are visible, continuing for over a week.

Its intensity was a shattering, white-hot fulfillment that created exquisite aftershocks until slowly releasing them to a soothing gentleness.

They clung together through the aftershocks, gasping as the dance crested on and on in an unnameable timelessness.

It was smooth and fast, creating aftershocks of her climax that drove her toward a second, and his was nearly as potent.

Trouble let the familiar talk wash over her, letting herself adjust to the aftershocks, the occasional frisson of unrelated sensation as the swollen scalp around the new implant triggered a reaction.

The release, when it came, was glorious, draining her of everything but the small, golden aftershocks that left her trembling.

Numbed by the aftershocks of adrenaline and rage, I left him for the rats or whatever else fate might have in store, and with a last glance at Quires, suspended between the light of heaven and the pit, like the filament in a immense bulb, I began my ascent.

Amanda imagined she felt a tremor under her, a tiny aftershock, the resettling of the stones.

The room was dead quiet except for the squeaking hinges as the door swung a little in the aftershock of its sudden opening.

They were-peaceable-looking creatures, but on reflection not so peaceable: the aftershock was their ferocity.

This was the cold that Bulgarians were gearing up for, as they faced the economic aftershocks of the Gulf crisis—which had begun the previous August when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait—and the collapse of Communism.

She sensed them distinctly, in spite of the aftershocks, the residual excruciation, of the caesure.

Soar's receivers could pick up the blind fallout of the blast, the enharmonic squalling of the debris, the thunderous dis tortion of the aftershock, but no voices.

Several secondary blasts slapped the darkness like aftershocks: the transfection lab crumbled into nothingness, and the walls of the residency compound shuddered, then collapsed.