earthquakes ch.2 lesson 2
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| earthquake | a sudden and violent shaking of the ground sometimes can cause destruction
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| crust | form into a harder outer layer
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| fault | a crack in a rock along which slippage has occured
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| mantle | the region of the interior of the Earth between the core
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| lithosphere | hard rigid outer layer of the earth
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| lithospheric plates | divided into a number of crustal plates
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| siesmoligists | scientific study of earthquakes
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| p-waves | a longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior
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| s-waves | a downward deflection of the QRS complex
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| surface waves | a seismic wave that travels that travels across the surface
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| focus | central point as attraction attention or activity
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| epicenter | the point Earth's surface directly above an earthquakes focus
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| richter scale | measures magnitude out of the earthquakes
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| moment-magnitude | measures the total energy released from earthquake
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| mercalli scale | measuring the intensity of an earthquake
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| seismic waves | an elastic wave in earth produced by an earthquake
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| magnitude | the great size or extent of something
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| seismograph | an instrument that measures and records details
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| liquefaction | a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness
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| aftershock | a smaller earthquake following the main shock of a large earthquake
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| Tusunami | long high sea wave
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| base isolater | is meant to enable a building or non structure to survive
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| shear core walls | center of a large building
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| tension ties | eyebar guy-wire suspension cables
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| cross bracing | is a system utilized to reinforce building
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| mass damper | reduces amplitude of mechanical vibrations
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| flexible pipe | is characterized by a compsite construction
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