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Chapter 19 vocab ES
Term | Definition |
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Stress | the total force acting on crustal rocks per unit of area |
Strain | the deformation of materials in response to stress |
Elastic deformation | caused when a type of compressed, bent, or stretched |
Plastic deformation | when stress builds up past a certain, called the elastic limit |
Fault | any fracture or system of fractures along which Earth moves |
Seismic waves | the vibrations of the ground produced during an earthquake |
Primary waves | Squeeze and push rocks in the direction along which the waves are traveling |
Secondary waves | S-waves, are named with respect to their arrival times |
Focus | the point where the waves originate |
Epicenter | the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus |
Seismometers | most of the vibrations caused by seismic waves cannot be felt at great distances from an earthquake's epicenter but they can be detected by this sensitive instruments |
Seismogram | the record produced by a seismometer |
Richter scale | devised by a geologist named Charles Richter, a numerical rating system. |
Magnitude | the measures the energy of the largest seismic waves |
Amplitude | the numbers in the Richter scale are determined by the height |
Moment Magnitude Scale | a rating scale that measures the energy released by an earthquake |
Modified Mercalli Scale | This measure called the intensity of an earthquake |
Soil Liquefcation | In areas with sand that is nearly saturated with water, seismic vibration can cause the ground to behave like a liquid in a phenomenon |
Tsunami | A large ocean wave generated by vertical motions on the seafloor during an earthquake |
Seismic gaps | Sections located along faults that are known to be active, but which have not experienced significant earthquakes for a long period of time. |