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Definition of Foreshocks
1. foreshock [n] - See also: foreshock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreshocks
Literary usage of Foreshocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of Conference LXII, 8th Joint Meeting of the U. S. Japan by R. L. Wesson (1995)
"foreshocks sometimes make it possible to predict an earthquake with pin-point
accuracy. For example, foreshock activity played an essential role in issuing ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
""An earthquake of consequence ... is likely to be preceded by foreshocks, normally
few in number and small in magnitude; and there is almost certain to be ..."
3. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1917)
"... without sensible foreshocks, at 3 :32 pm (Pacific Coast Daylight-Saving Time)
or 22:32 Greenwich Mean Civil Time. Newspaper reports published on the ..."
4. State of the Art in Probability and Statistics: Festschrift for Willem R by Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, A. W. van der Vaart (2001)
"In particular, it is known that earthquake processes are quite asymmetric in
time, with few foreshocks and many aftershocks; ..."
5. Catalog of Tsunamis in the Pacific, 1969-1982 edited by S. L. Soloviev, K. Kim, CGO Staff (1997)
"This figure shows the epicenters of the main shock, its foreshocks and its
aftershocks observed until the end of December. Southwest of Mikura Island the ..."
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