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There have already been a number of aftershocks, including magnitude 3.4 quakes at 8:40 and 9:37 a.m.
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
Death Without Mercy includes their footage, other first-hand video shot by survivors, CCTV video of the quake and aftershocks, and drone footage showing the immensity of the damage.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 June 2024
The aftershocks of the Vietnam War and the ruination of family legacy also came into play in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
In most cases, aftershocks are smaller and fade over time, but there is a 1 in 20 chance that, in the next week, there will be another earthquake of magnitude 4.7 or larger.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
Death Without Mercy includes their footage, other first-hand video shot by survivors, CCTV video of the quake and aftershocks, and drone footage showing the immensity of the damage.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 June 2024
The aftershocks of the Vietnam War and the ruination of family legacy also came into play in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
In most cases, aftershocks are smaller and fade over time, but there is a 1 in 20 chance that, in the next week, there will be another earthquake of magnitude 4.7 or larger.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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Harris' clearest path to victory in November would be to win the three blue wall battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, barring any shock results elsewhere.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Selzer poll has been viewed as evidence that pollsters calling the race a dead heat have been acting out of a desire to seek safety in numbers following the shock 2016 election result that failed to spot latent support for Trump.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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But last night, in the afterglow of her (alleged) nuptials, Del Rey gave us a taste of her bridal-adjacent style.Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
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Sure, Bill and Jo are happy now, in the afterglow of tornado chasing.Katla McGlynn, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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Nothing has compared to that quake since then, and in that time, the population of Los Angeles County has grown from around 9 million to more than 10 million people.Stephanie Elam, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
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And Ghost had two women in the business making men quake: Noma and day-one baddie Monet, played by Mary J. Blige.Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
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And as the conflict stretched into its second and third years, its international repercussions have expanded in scope.Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
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Yet the outcome stands to dictate whether Louisiana’s map can survive in future years and carry broader repercussions for how remedial designs can be drawn once a court strikes down a map under the Voting Rights Act.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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Have large foreshocks happened in California before? About half of California's biggest earthquakes in history have been preceded by foreshocks.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
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As always, there’s a 5% chance of today’s quake being a foreshock to a bigger one.Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
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Even with a Republican Congress, some of this could prove difficult — and the potential fallout is uncertain at best.Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Amid the fallout from the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal, Parton refused to condemn the disgraced president.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Last week was a particularly active period for the volcano, with over 1,000 thousand minutes of tremors being detected each day, and huge plumes of ash being spewed out of the mountain.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Cue the denouement of Mika’s relationship (read: multiple make-out sessions) with Jules.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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The story of that dining room—called the Peacock Room and considered one of Whistler’s masterpieces—has long been rife with mythology about the drama surrounding its creation and denouement.Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
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“Aftershock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftershock. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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