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Stress   Something that happens when presser is put on something  
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Tension   When press builds up  
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Compression   Squeezes the rock  
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Shearing   Two rocks sliding pass each other  
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Normal fault   Rock at an angle  
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Hanging wall   The rock that lies above the fault  
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Footwall   The rocks that lie below the hanging wall  
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Reverse fault   Rocks that push together  
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Strike - slip fault   Plats move past each other  
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Anticline   A fold rock that bends upward  
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Syncline   A fold rock that bends downward  
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Plateau   Large area of flat land.  
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Earthquake   When the ground shakes valiantly  
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Focus   The area under stress  
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Epicenter   Where the quake started  
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P wave   The first wave to come  
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S wave   The next one to come  
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Surface wave   P & s waves come to the surfaces  
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Mercalli scale   The way to rate quakes  
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Magnitude   How bad the quake was  
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Richter scale   The scale that measures quakes  
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Seismograph   How seismic wavers are measured  
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Moment magnitude scale   A system that estimates how big a quake will be  
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Seismogram   Records seismic waves  
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Friction   When two things rub each other  
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Liquefaction   Ground becomes a liquid  
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Aftershock   What happens after a quake  
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Tsunami   Water moved by a quake  
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Base-isolated building   Things used to make buildings safe in a quake  
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