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单词 after-shock
释义 ˈafter-shock
[after- 6.]
A lesser shock coming after the main shock of an earthquake.
1894Seismolog. Jrnl. Japan III. 72 All the after-shocks have been weaker than the respective initial earthquakes.1903R. D. Oldham in Mem. Geol. Survey India XXXV. ii. 2 In the early months of the aftershocks, there appeared to be a distinct increase in the frequency of earthquakes.1946Nature 30 Nov. 784/2 The first, at 22 hr. 26·3 min. G.M.T., was an aftershock of the destructive Dominican Republic earthquake of August 4 off Samana Peninsula.
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