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Vocab 1/4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| earthquake | a movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks slide along a fault move |
| elastic rebound | the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape |
| focus | the location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs |
| epicenter | the point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point, or focus |
| seismograph | an instrument that records vibrations in the ground |
| seismogram | a tracing of earthquake motion that is recorded by a seismograph |
| magnitude | a measure of the strength of an earthquake |
| intensity | in Earth science, the amount of damage caused by an earthquake |
| tsunami | a giant ocean wave that forms after a volcanic eruption, submarine earthquake, or landslide |