How huge earthquakes don’t trigger a ripple effect?

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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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Magma is much deeper and border isn’t one clear line. The deeper you go the more pockets of magma there are until there is almost only magma with almost no solid rocks. Magma is dense, viscous and under great pressure. There is some ripple effect but with distance it gets weaker.

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