- In seismology, the
mainshock is the
largest earthquake in a sequence,
sometimes preceded by one or more foreshocks, and
almost always followed by many...
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epicentre is
about 8 km west of the
first mainshock.
Large numbers of
aftershocks were
recorded following the
mainshocks. They were
distributed over a 15 km...
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Doublet earthquake, an
earthquake that
consists of at
least two or more
mainshocks of
nearly identical magnitude,
separated by a
period of time. Earthquake...
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Kumamoto jishin) were a
series of earthquakes,
including a
magnitude 7.0
mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 (16:25 UTC on
April 15) beneath...
- Part of a
series on
Earthquakes Types Mainshock Foreshock Aftershock Blind thrust Doublet Interplate Intraplate Megathrust Remotely triggered Slow Submarine...
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previously damaged from the
mainshock. If an
aftershock is
larger than the
mainshock, the
aftershock is
redesignated as the
mainshock and the
original main...
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approximately 10 km (6 miles) to the northwest. The latter, now
considered the
mainshock, was the most
powerful earthquake to
occur in the
state in 20
years (after...
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reverse faults and were
within 3 mi (4.8 km) of the M6.9 Loma
Prieta mainshock epicenter, near the
intersection of the San
Andreas and
Sargent faults...
- a
major earthquake under ordinary cir****stances but is
dwarfed by the
mainshock. The
shift of m**** and the m****ive
release of
energy slightly altered...
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rupture length in the
range 675–700 km.
Approximately 16
hours after the
mainshock, in the
early morning of the
following day at
around 06:00 JST, a strong...
