A foreshock just minutes before had cut the power supply and many people had moved away from heavy machinery and out of their houses.
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There were additionally at least 10 foreshocks felt, with the largest having a magnitude of 4.5 on April 8, 2016.
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There have been several thousand foreshocks and aftershocks since December 2008, more than thirty of which had a Richter magnitude greater than 3.5.
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Foreshocks occur in about 10 to 20 percent of all temblors that hit the state, according to geophysicist David P . Hill at the geological survey.
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It has also been suggested that unusual behavior hours or even days beforehand could be triggered by foreshock activity at magnitudes that most people do not notice.
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Computing the hypocenters of foreshocks, main shock, and aftershocks of earthquakes allows the three-dimensional plotting of the fault along which movement is occurring.
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Approximately 100 minor aftershocks and one presumed foreshock were reported within two days after the earthquake, 27 of which occurred within an hour after the earthquake.
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The 20 May earthquake sequence began with a magnitude 4.0 foreshock at 01 : 13 local time ( 23 : 13 UTC 19 May ).
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Foreshocks, for instance, precede some earthquakes, but not others, and in many cases, small tremors occur that are not followed by big ones.
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Some great earthquakes ( M > 8.0 ) show no foreshock activity at all, such as the M8.6 1950 India-China earthquake.
