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Ch.8 Section 2

Earthquake measurments

Answer
Instruments At Earth's Surface Which Record Seismic Waves Seismographs
Tracing Of Earthquake Made On A Seismograph Seismogram
Scientists Who Study Seismic Waves Seismologist
How Does Energy Manifest From Earthquakes From Seismic Waves Or By Shaking The Ground
Where Do Earthquakes Occur? Example (Oceanic vs. Continental) Plate Boundaries
What Causes Earthquakes To Happen? Deformation
The Study Of Earthquakes Seismology
Waves Created By An Earthquake That Travel Through Earth Seismic Waves
The Two Ways That Earthquakes Deform Are... Plastic, Elastic
It Goes With The Flow, Has Little Potential Energy Plastic
Has A Lot Of Potential Energy That Can Be Devastating (when released) Elastic
This Scale Measures How Strong The Earthquke Is Richter scale
This Scale Is About The Damage It Creates And How Much It Costs (In DollarsTo Repair That Damage Mercalli Scale
Can I Forecast Accuratly Where An Earthquake Will Happen NO, But You Can Guess By Guessing That An Earthquake Will Happen By One That Has Just Happened Recently
Possibilities Of Technology To Be Put On Buildings To Make Them Safer Shock absorburs, steal bridges/braces
They Arrive Second, They Only Go Through Liquid, Second Fastest S-Waves
They Arrive First,They Are The Fastest, They Can Go Through Anything P-Waves
The Distance To The Epicenter, The Distance Between S Waves and P Waves Lag-Time
The Occurance In The Earth Focus
Directly On Top Of The Earth's Crust Epicenter
Created by: Roseville1
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