Therefore, Nepalis had expected the next major earthquake to be imminent -- however ill prepared they were to face it -- but such a large aftershock only weeks afterwards came as a surprise to many.
Not only aftershocks but also afterslips follow large earthquakes.
Sixty-six percent said that Mr. Sarkozy's government could not protect France from the aftershocks, and only 14percentthatat it could.
Aftershocks had only occurred in region X before the Mj 7.7 earthquakes occurred in region Y.
High-precision hypocenters beneath the array suggest that aftershocks occurred only in the overriding block of the main thrust fault.
In terms of coseismic stress perturbation at 1 km depth, the stress shadow covers most of the major rupture zone, which explains that aftershocks occurred only sporadically at shallow depths (< 5 km depth).
In the city of Sendai, survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami are not only having to cope with the aftershocks, but also fear exposure to radiation.
On the other hand, the fault plane of the largest aftershock is not known, because the largest aftershock occurred only 10 hours after the main shock, and the aftershock distribution cannot be used to estimate the fault plane of the largest aftershock.
That seems to be why Mr. Feng himself has expressed agreement with the notion that "Aftershock" is only pretty good, even if it's also the best that can be expected of a big commercial Chinese film under the present circumstances.
