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forces in earth's crust
Term | Definition |
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stress | a force that acts on rocks to change its shape or valume |
focus | the location with in the earth where the rock actually breaks |
epicenter | the location on the earth's surface directly above the focus |
primary wave (P-wave) slinkey | very fast (4-7 km/sec) pass through a solid liquid or gas arrives at recording station first |
secondary wave (s-wave) a rope | slower moving (2-5 km/sec) caused by shearing motion cant pass through fluid |
surface waves | produced when earthquake energy reaches the earth's surface slowest moving wave most destructive |
seismogragph | records the arrival time and magnitude of horizontal and vertical movement caused by an earthquake |
the Richter scale | used to express earthquakes magnitude on the basis of the height a (amplitude) of the larges line on a seisomgram |
the mercalli scale | measures the intensity of how people and structures are effective by the seismic event |