Enormous amounts of masonry, glass, wood, metal, and other debris created by the initial shock wave will fly at velocities above 160 km (100 miles) per hour, causing further destruction.
The misalignment of density and pressure gradients at the bubble interface, caused by the initial shock wave and the subsequent detonation wave, induces Richtmyer Meshkov and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities.
Europe's new currency, the euro, was slammed by the initial shock, but recovered in later trading.
He and other scientists are trying to understand where aftershocks are most likely to occur, by simulating what happens when faults get distorted by the initial shocks.
— By now, voters here are over the initial shock.
The initial shock caused by the discovery of a cleft is followed rapidly by fear, anger, sadness and guilt particularly if the baby is the first one [2, 4].
As the FTSE fell, at one stage by nearly 500 points, Lewis said that the "initial shock can be overcome".
"It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other feelings: disbelief, incomprehension, anger – and concern for those who remain".
Most of the bodies are gone now, decomposed beneath the rubble, or crushed in the initial shock, or hauled out by dump truck to a mass burial ground outside town, near the sea, or, occasionally, pulled from the wreckage by the family and given proper burial rites.
The initial "shock therapy" approach implemented by Leszek Balcerowicz in the first Solidarity-affiliated government in 1990 generated such high unemployment and social dissatisfaction that voters ejected these first neo-liberal politicians from office and replaced them with the former Communists.
The initial shock was usually followed by great disappointment at the loss of the long-awaited arrival which created a huge gap in parents' lives [ 44, 50, 55].
