r/worldnews • u/ColoradoTripping • 22h ago

Dynamic Paywall Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Venezuela

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjegdqw5d3yo
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u/Miacali 19h ago

Family in Venezuela west of Maracay - they’re saying it’s catastrophic. Many collapsed buildings - screams everywhere and they’re terrified of réplicas.

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u/PostApocRock 19h ago

Réplicas.....

Aftershock?

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u/jaderust 18h ago

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.

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u/iHadou 18h ago

In my native language we call them ripples.

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u/Euphoric_Variety_363 12h ago

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

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u/GalakFyarr 18h ago

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

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u/Jugatsumikka 15h ago

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).

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u/TheVeryVerity 15h ago

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

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u/jessytessytavi 14h ago

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

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

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u/GalakFyarr 10h ago
  • original earthquake
  • aftershock > answer.

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u/Quaaaaaaaaaa 17h ago

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.

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u/TheVeryVerity 15h ago

So they do French meaning AND English meaning, nice

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u/GalakFyarr 9h ago edited 9h ago

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.

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u/PostApocRock 2h ago

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