How to Use aftershock in a Sentence

aftershock

noun

• The first aftershock came just minutes after the earthquake.
• Since then, the family has set up a tent in the street out of fear of more aftershocks.
  — Ghaith Alsayed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• As time goes on, the USGS said, the number of aftershocks drops off.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
• The earthquake was followed by at least nine aftershocks in the next few hours.
  — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• Jones said aftershocks from the new main quake could occur for three years.
  — Brady McCombs, The Denver Post, 5 July 2019
• Every time things start to cool down, some aftershock comes and reminds them of the same fear.
  — Brianna Milord, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• Thousands of small homes have been battered by the quakes and more than 200 aftershocks.
  — Ben Otto, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• There were, there was one last Thursday too, and then there were two aftershocks.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• The aftershock came late in the first quarter of the Magic-Spurs game and play was not affected.
  — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2019
• Heavy snowfall and the more than 1,000 aftershocks raised the danger of more landslides.
  — Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
• Lesly and his family had slept in the streets until the aftershocks stopped.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
• Many had slept there since Saturday, fearing the aftershocks that have rolled through the city.
  — Yaqoob Akbary, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Ridgecrest earthquake and aftershocks struck at the Little Lake fault zone.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
• The quake was followed one minute later by a 3.9 aftershock.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
• Three aftershocks, of magnitude 4.7 and 4.6, hit within less than an hour in the same region at the same depth.
  — Danica Coto, The Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2019
• The earthquake was an aftershock of the 7.1 earthquake that struck just north of Anchorage more than two years ago.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2021
• And a subsequent aftershock on Friday added to the toll.
  — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
• The vast majority of the aftershocks are too small to feel, Bellini said.
  — Rachel D'oro, The Seattle Times, 5 Dec. 2018
• Experts say the aftershocks could continue for a week — some may not be felt.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2019
• In the first three weeks, there were 20 aftershocks of magnitude 6.0 or higher.
  — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• But the aftershock of being fired from his own band via email haunts the EP's most powerful moments.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2021
• Alia Wong: The aftershocks of the pandemic keep coming.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• The earthquake was not an aftershock, said Stephen Holtkamp, a researcher at the earthquake center.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2021
• The aftershock will likely last for the next couple of days, Russell told Fortune.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• There’s even a chance—albeit a small one—of an aftershock bigger than the original quake.
  — WIRED, 6 Feb. 2023
• Payne was still feeling the aftershocks of life under the 1D microscope as well.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• In 2008, Grosz felt the tremble of the Great Recession and just five years later, the aftershock of the Detroit bankruptcy.
  — Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• The aftershocks were reliving everything in my head over and over and over again.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• The agency asks residents to remain calm and be on alert for more aftershocks.
  — Fox News, 14 July 2019
• The players signing bloated offer sheets Tuesday with the St. Louis Blues has caused seismic aftershocks.
  — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024