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Earthquake

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Earthquake a sudden and violent shaking of the ground.
Crust is the outermost layer of the planet.
Fault is a crack is the Earth's crust.
Mantle between the core and the crust is the MANTLE.
Lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost mantle.
Lithospheric Plates are regions of earth's crust and upper mantle.
Seismologists earthquake.
convegent two tectonic plates crash together.
divengent two tectonic plates move away from each other causing hills and mountains.
trnsform two tectonic plates slide past each other.
subduction zone tectonic plates that meet.
convection zone between a star's core.
s-wave waves moving side to side.
p-wave waves moving up and down.
surface wave like is you drop a penny in the lake there are going to be waves coming from the pennies surroundings.
focus in the middle of something.
epicenter something above the focus during an earthquake.
Metallica scale using measurement
Richter scale using seismograph
Moment magnitude scale using size
Compression When a pile of material is squished together and made smaller and more dense
Tension which stretches rocks in two opposite directions
Plateau is an area of highland
Shearing force tending to cause deformation of a material by slippage along a plane or planes parallel to the imposed stress
Normal fault A geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall
Reverse fault A geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall.
Seismagraph a graph that measures the Earth's shaking
Seismology a person that studies Earthquake related
Aftershock a smaller earthquake after the main/bigger Earthquake
Liquefaction used by matierals
Tsunami a sea wave caused by an Earthquake
Magnitude size
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