English Explanatory Dictionary

mainshock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The largest earthquake in a sequence, sometimes preceded by foreshocks and almost always followed by aftershocks which are of lesser intensity.

Word forms

mainshock mainshocks

Etymology

From main + shock.

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