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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| earthquake | causes vibrations in the ground that result from movement along breaks in the Earth's lithospehere |
| epicenter | location directly above the focus of a earthquake |
| fault | break earths lithospere where one block of rock moves forward, away from or past another |
| focus | location where rocks first move along a fault and sesmatic waves originate |
| seismic wave | travels as vibrations on and in earth |
| seismometer | measures and records the records ground motion in the distance and direction seismaic waves travel |