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These smaller earthquakes are called aftershocks. Aftershocks can often be as strong as the earthquake its self and there can be many.
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The adjustments of materials that follow a major earthquake often generate smaller earthquakes called?
aftershocks
Movements following a major earthquake often produce smaller earthquakes called?
Aftershock
What are smaller earthquakes that immediately follow a major earthquake shock?
These are known as aftershocks.
Major earthquake are sometime preceded by smaller earthquakes - true or false?
True! The small magnitude earthquakes that sometimes precede a major earthquake are known as fore shocks.
What is the name of the most recent major earthquake in the world?
japans earthquake. it led to the tsunami. so it is the most severe,and most major earthquake.
The adjustments of materials that follow a major earthquake often generate smaller earthquakes called?
aftershocks
What are smaller earthquakes called that immediately follow a major earthquake?
earthquakes that immediately follow a major earthquake are called "aftershocks" as to small earthquakes before large earthquakes are called "foreshocks".
Movements following a major earthquake often produce smaller earthquakes called?
Aftershock
What are smaller earthquakes that immediately follow a major earthquake shock?
These are known as aftershocks.
Are smaller earthquakes that immediately follow a major earthquake known as aftershocks?
Yes the smaller earthquakes that immediately follow major earthquakes are known as aftershocks.
Major earthquake are sometime preceded by smaller earthquakes - true or false?
True! The small magnitude earthquakes that sometimes precede a major earthquake are known as fore shocks.
Where a major earthquake has happened in the past is called?
Earthquaked!
What do you call the vibration which occurs after main earthquake?
The earthquakes after a major earthquake in the same area are called aftershocks.
Where a major earthquake has happened in the past is called a seismic?
Haiti
Where a major earthquake has happened in the past but not in a while is called a seismic?
Seismic gap.
What is it called when earthquake that occurs after a large earthquake centered in the same area?
I think you may be referring to aftershocks. Aftershocks are smaller tremors that can occur at any time for months after an earthquake as the pressure within Earth's crust is gradually released.
A place where a major earthquake has happened in the past but not recently is called a seismic?
A place where an earthquake has occurred in the past but not recently is known as a seismic gap.
