"mainshock" meaning in English

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        "The largest earthquake in a sequence, sometimes preceded by foreshocks and almost always followed by aftershocks which are of lesser intensity."
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          "foreshock"
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          "aftershock",
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        "(geology) The largest earthquake in a sequence, sometimes preceded by foreshocks and almost always followed by aftershocks which are of lesser intensity."
      ],
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "maximum shock in earthquake",
          "word": "pääjäristys"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "maximum shock in earthquake",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hauptbeben"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "honshin",
          "sense": "maximum shock in earthquake",
          "word": "本震"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "mainshock"
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        ],
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        "(geology) The largest earthquake in a sequence, sometimes preceded by foreshocks and almost always followed by aftershocks which are of lesser intensity."
      ],
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "maximum shock in earthquake",
      "word": "pääjäristys"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "maximum shock in earthquake",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hauptbeben"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "honshin",
      "sense": "maximum shock in earthquake",
      "word": "本震"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mainshock"
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