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Stack #4606159
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fault | A fracture in bedrock, along which blocks of rock on opposite sides of the fracture move. |
| Intensity | the extreme degree of strength, force, or energy of something, such as an emotion, activity, or physical phenomenon like light or sound. |
| Magnitude | A measure of the total amount of energy released at the focus of an earthquake |
| Destructive | causing damage or injury |
| stress | the amount of force being applied to a rock or surface |
| tsunami | a series of extremely long ocean waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of the water, usually triggered by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption. |
| seismograph | An instrument used to detect earthquake |
| seismogram | A seismogram is the graphical record of ground motion produced by a seismograph during an earthquake or other seismic event |
| tension | Tension ForcesTension is a state of being stretched or strained, referring to either a physical pulling force in objects |
| compression | decrease in volume of any object or substance resulting from applied stress. Compression may be undergone by solids, liquids, and gases and by living systems. |
| shearing | the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. |
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