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PRONUNCIATION OF FORESHOCK

foreshock  [ˈfɔːˌʃɒk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORESHOCK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Foreshock is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FORESHOCK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Foreshock

A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event and is related to it in both time and space. The designation of an earthquake as foreshock, mainshock or aftershock is only possible after the full sequence of events has happened.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORESHOCK


aftershock
ˈɑːftəˌʃɒk
antishock
ˌæntɪˈʃɒk
choc
tʃɒk
chock
tʃɒk
electroshock
ɪˈlektrəʊʃɒk
kazachok
ˌkɑːzəˈtʃɒk
shock
ʃɒk
woodshock
ˈwʊdˌʃɒk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORESHOCK

foreseeability
foreseeable
foreseeingly
foreseen
foreseer
foreshadow
foreshadower
foreshank
foresheet
foreship
foreshore
foreshorten
foreshortening
foreshow
foreshown
foreside
foresight
foresighted
foresightedly
foresightedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORESHOCK

acoustic shock
anaphylactic shock
corn shock
culture shock
electric shock
electrical shock
forehock
hock
hollyhock
in hock
insulin shock
Mohock
shell shock
short sharp shock
surgical shock
thermal shock

Synonyms and antonyms of foreshock in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «foreshock» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORESHOCK

Find out the translation of foreshock to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foreshock from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foreshock» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

前震
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

foreshock
570 millions of speakers

English

foreshock
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

foreshock
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

foreshock
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

форшоком
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

foreshock
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফরশক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

choc précurseur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Foreshock
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorbeben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前震
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

foreshock
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Foreshock
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

foreshock
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முந்தைய நடுக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आगाऊ प्रवास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

öncü şok
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

foreshock
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

foreshock
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

форшоков
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

foreshock
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσεισμικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

foreshock
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

foreshock
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

foreshock
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foreshock

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORESHOCK»

The term «foreshock» is normally little used and occupies the 128.534 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORESHOCK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foreshock

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORESHOCK»

Discover the use of foreshock in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foreshock and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results: Cluster ...
upstream conditions, particularly the magnetic field orientation, cause proportional changes to large-scale foreshock structure. Nor are the system response time scales particularly clear. Work has been published examining the effects of brief ...
Götz Paschmann, S. J. Schwartz, C.P. Escoubet, 2006
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Collisionless Shocks in the Heliosphere: Reviews of Current ...
Introduction The earth's foreshock is that region outside of its bow shock which contains solar wind plasma that is disturbed by the presence of the earth, its magnetosphere, and in particular, the shock. The disturbance appears to be due  ...
Bruce T. Tsurutani, Robert G. Stone, 1985
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Plasmi Nell'Universo:
The foreshock and interplanetary shocks. - The strongest evidence for SDA comes from observations of particles associated with shocks in the heliosphere. The shocks that have been studied in detail are the Earthts bow shock, other planetary ...
B. Coppi, Attilio Ferrari, Elio Sindoni, 2000
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Mercury
... the shock that is located where the instantaneous interplanetary magnetic field is tangential to the shock surface. Therefore, naively one does not expect large reflected electron fluxes in the foreshock region. This conclusion might, however,  ...
A. Balogh, Andre Balogh, Leonid Ksanfomality, 2008
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
They are flat over the frequency band of about 0.7 to 7.0-10 Hz. The strong 0.3 Hz peak of the N07W main-shock component is missing from the foreshock spectrum . If this peak had scaled by the same factor as the rest of the spectrum, about ...
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International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology
Foreshock activities are highly variable. Many large earthquakes of M!7.0 are not preceded by foreshocks, even if the seismograph network is capable of detecting shocks of M<3.0. Therefore the magnitude difference between the mainshock ...
William H.K. Lee, Paul Jennings, Carl Kisslinger, 2002
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Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves
Ion Foreshock Electron Foreshock Boundary Boundary Ion Foreshock undisturbed upstream flow and magnetic field shock foot Figure 6.3: Schematic of the relation between a curved shock and its foreshock in dependence on the direction of ...
André Balogh, Rudolf A. Treumann, 2013
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Seismicity Patterns, Their Statistical Significance and ...
0033-4553/99/040355-25 $ 1.50 + 0.20/0 I Pure and Applied Geophysics Foreshock Occurrence Rates before Large Earthquakes Worldwide Paul A. Reasenberg1 Abstract- Global rates of foreshock occurrence involving shallow M >6 and ...
Max Wyss, Kunihiko Shimazaki, Akihiko Ito, 1999
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The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere
The Earth's foreshock is the region upstream of the Earth's bow shock but downstream of the tangential of IMF lines. The foreshock plasma includes convected solar wind plasma and electrons reflected and accelerated by, or leaking through, ...
Mari Paz Miralles, Jorge Sánchez Almeida, 2011
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Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas: Geospace and ...
evolve to diffuse foreshock ion distribution in phase space. Overall, the sunward, hot ion beam can escape a large distance following field lines in the upstream. Enhanced parallel temperatures are present upstream of the quasi-parallel shock , ...
Dennis Gallagher, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORESHOCK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foreshock is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cineplex AMC - Los Angeles Times
“This may be the foreshock to the seismic shift,” Kaplan said. “Why should the movie industry escape the disruption that has torn through every ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
In oil-friendly Okla., Gov. Fallin moved slowly on 'awkward' issue of …
Often referred to now as "the Prague quake," it was actually a series of quakes. It began Nov. 5 with a magnitude-4.7 foreshock at about 2 a.m. ... «Environment & Energy Publishing, Jul 15»
3
Public Release: 23-Jun-2015 Understanding subduction zone …
This foreshock did not occur on the subduction zone but on a fault within the South American tectonic plate, and its geometry is similar to that of ... «EurekAlert, Jun 15»
4
Sports Night: A foreshock for the soccer world at Bonney Field
Furillo: Republic FC nearly shook up soccer world. It shouldn't take an earthquake like Tuesday's nailbiting loss to San Jose to convince MLS ... «Sacramento Bee, Jun 15»
5
The problem with predicting earthquakes
A foreshock, or a small earthquake preceding a large earthquake, led Chinese officials to evacuate the city, where nearly a million people ... «Livemint, Jun 15»
6
Rebuilding Hotel Paradise
For Dolakha, the 25 April quake was a foreshock. The 12 May event, with its epicentre just 15km northeast of Charikot, was actually the main ... «Nepali times, Jun 15»
7
Movie review: San Andreas
The audience is given a foreshock of impending disaster, if you will, moments into the opening scene. A young woman is driving along a road ... «Prague Post, Jun 15»
8
Solomon Islands, South Sandwich Islands and Nevada …
... although whether it's actually the mainshock in the series, or whether it's just a larger foreshock with the mainshock still to come, is something ... «Decoded Science, May 15»
9
California Dream Under Attack in All Manner of Cinematic Imaginings
We have just seen the Hoover Dam disintegrate in a mere foreshock. Office towers crumble into dust. Yes, that is a tidal wave breaking over the ... «Bend Bulletin, May 15»
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NDOT: Ramps are 'sound and safe' for travel after quake
“The standard seismologist answer is about one in 20 for this being a foreshock of a larger earthquake, but if you look at the Nevada record ... «KVVU Las Vegas, May 15»

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