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earthquakes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| convergent | tending to move towards one point or approaching each other |
| earthquake | causes vibrations in the ground that result from movment along breaks in earth lithpshere |
| eqicenter | location directly above the foucos of an earthquake |
| fault | breaks in eaeth lithosphere where one block of rocks moves towareds away one block of rock moved towareds from or past another |
| focus | loactions where rock first move along a fault and seusmic wave orginate |
| seismis wave | travels as vibration on and in earth |
| seismometer | measures and records ground to motion and the distance and direction seismic wave travels |