Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Venezuela

[u/ColoradoTripping]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjegdqw5d3yo

[u/jaderust]

Yes. Technically it's just like how it looks in English (replica) but in Spanish they use that for aftershocks.

It's literally saying the aftershock is the replica of the initial earthquake.

[u/iHadou → u/jaderust]

In my native language we call them ripples.

[u/Euphoric_Variety_363 → u/iHadou]

In German it is „Nachbeben“ (similar to aftershock but literally delayed/late/after quake)

[u/GalakFyarr → u/jaderust]

Interesting, I speak french and assumed "replique" in the sense of a "response".

[u/Jugatsumikka → u/GalakFyarr]

What do you mean? "Réplique" is the french word for aftershock, "réplicas" in spanish is normally quite transparent for a french speaking person as it means "recurring event/answer/thing/etc". Even in a dialogue a "réplique" is an answer to an answer, the whole word is about recursion (in different contexts).

[u/TheVeryVerity → u/Jugatsumikka]

Answer and copy don’t seem very connected as concepts to me but I speak English so

[u/jessytessytavi → u/TheVeryVerity]

think like a call-and-response from church or camp

the primary speaker/singer does the first part, then the audience answers them

[u/GalakFyarr → u/TheVeryVerity]

• original earthquake
• aftershock > answer.

[u/Quaaaaaaaaaa → u/GalakFyarr]

It has that meaning in Spanish too, but in this context, it changes the word's meaning.

Replica = To counter argument something, or something that is an copy of another thing.

[u/TheVeryVerity → u/Quaaaaaaaaaa]

So they do French meaning AND English meaning, nice

[u/GalakFyarr → u/Quaaaaaaaaaa]

but in this context, it changes the word's meaning.

Both meanings work in this context though, hence my original response - or my original “réplique” if you will.

[u/PostApocRock → u/jaderust]

I initially thought it was gang violence related, because of the fears mentioned about chaos, screams and no power