foreshocks in English

noun
1
a mild tremor preceding the violent shaking movement of an earthquake.
Probably the most spectacular example was the short-term prediction of the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake by the Chinese, based on earthquake foreshocks , unusual animal behaviour, and a few other precursors.

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1. There were four foreshocks, beginning with the largest (Mj 3.7) at 18:28 on the previous day.

2. “Aftershocks” is thematically structured like an earthquake, including the rumbling foreshocks and the shuddering ground after an upheaval

3. Even in areas where foreshocks are fairly common, there is no way of distinguishing a foreshock from an independent earthquake.

4. Aseismic slip distribution appears to be somewhat more spread out, which may be an effect of the larger uncertainty associated with GPS data after removing the contribution of foreshocks (as the co‐seismic prediction uncertainty propagates in the corrected GPS data)