Aftershock 17 : Natural Disaster. The long, exponentially decaying sequence of smaller earthquakes that follow a large-magnitude earthquake for months to years, exacerbating the damage. A type of ground failure
By M. Debacker, B. Domres, Walter Hays, J. de Boer, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Disaster Terminology, Glossary of New Concepts in Disaster Medicine, USA 2002, http://www.eird.org/isdr-biblio/PDF/Prehospital%20 and%20disaster%20medicine.pdf, (D/DM - Amer) {831}