How earthquakes act
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| Earthquakes | The shaking and vibrating of the earth and when sudden realeses of energy
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| Crust | The earths most outer layer
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| Fault | A break or crack in the earths surface
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| Mantle | The layer of hot solid material between earths crust and core
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| Lithosphere | A layer made up of the mantle and crust
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| Litospheric plates | Part of the crust and upper layer of the mantle always moving
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| Seismologist | A scientist who studies earthquakes and changes of the earth
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| P wave | The wave that is fastest and straight
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| S wave | The second wave and does a little more damage
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| Surface wave | The third wave and does the most damage
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| Seismic wave | A wave of energy sent from the focus of the earthquake
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| Focus | The very middle of the hurricane underground
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| Epicenter | The one above the focus point
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| Seismagraph | A device that records the ground movements caused by seismic waves
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| Magnitude | A measurement of earthquake strength
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| Ricter scale | Measures the power of the earthquake
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| Mercalli scale | Meaure the damadge that is done
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| Moment- magnitude scale | Measures how much energy realesed
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| Liquefactoin | When the soil turns loose and turn to mud
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| Aftershock | After the earthquake the is a small one after
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| Tsunami | When there is an earthquake in the water realeses a huge wave
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