Definition of "aftershock"

It was not a peace that brought joy – it was one that created an oppressive tension like the calm between a major earthquake and the aftershock.

2011, Raymond Gordon, The Ecclesiastical Chronicles, Volume Two: The Society, page 278

The collapse of the financial market sixty days later was the aftershock.

2011, Jeremy Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution

Set in the 1950s, Badlands looks back to that period of malaise in American culture which was defined by the aftershock of world war, the fears engendered by the Cold War, and the questioning of both cultural and individual identity.

2012, Hannah Patterson, The Cinema of Terrence Malick, page 26

On the other hand, in a global economy, many governments are seeking to limit their social costs in order to attract global corporations to invest in their countries, while also grappling with the aftershock of the banking crisis which has seen state financial support to the banking sector amount to L850 billion of guarantees and loans (National Audit Office, 2011).

2014, Lester Parrott, Social work and poverty, page 35

Far from being an emotional aftershock following an event that upsets our whole world, horror is what first discloses to us the upsetting possibility that our world as a whole can cease to be.

1992, Jerome A. Miller, In the Throe of Wonder, page 129

Aftershock is my own term for post-traumatic reactions experienced by activists.

2007, Pattrice Jones, Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World

"I meant, how are you doing with the aftershock?" "Aftershock? I keep thinking there must have been something I could have done."

2013, Anne Hillerman, Spider Woman's Daughter, page 221

He wavered on his feet from adrenaline aftershock, blood loss, and from the fact that he was ruined.

2013, Kris Schnee, Everyone's Island, page 119