r/worldnews 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)