Epicenter test
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What is an earthquake? | natural rapid shaking of the lithosphere caused by the release of stored energy in rocks
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What is potential energy in rocks givin off as during an earthquake? | seismic waves
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What is a focus? | where the earthquake starts and where seismic waves are emitted from
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Epicenter | location on Earths surface directly above the focus
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Seismograph | an instrument that shows how Earth shakes from seismic waves
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What does p waves stand for? | Primary waves
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Do p waves arrive first or second? | first
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P-waves cause the particles they are moving through to vibrate... | in the direction that the waves are moving
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What can p-waves travel through? | solids, liquids, and gases
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what does s wave stand for? | secondary waves
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do s waves go faster than p waves? | No
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so s waves arrive first or second? | second
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s waves cause the particles they are moving through to... | vibrate at right angles to the direction the waves are moving
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s waves can pass through... | solids
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