How huge earthquakes don’t trigger a ripple effect?

Question

In face of recent events how come one big earthquake don’t make a global chaos with its ripple triggering earthquakes everywhere? As I understand below the outer earth layer we have magma which is liquid and would transmit the shockwaves more easily than solid.

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There typically are dozens/hundreds of aftershocks following a major earthquake, and there have been with this latest one. According to [this CNN article](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/world/turkey-syria-earthquake-epicenter-maps-dg/index.html), there have been over 100 aftershocks, one almost as powerful as the initial earthquake.