'Mainshock'

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Mainshock

Sunday, January 05, 2014

6:00 PM

mainshock: the largest earthquake within a closely-spaced and temporally-clustered series of earthquakes. Typically followed by aftershocks, smaller earthquakes which become less frequent with increased time since the mainshock.

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Created: 2014-01-05
Updated: 2014-01-05