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| plate | upper mantle that moves around on the athenosphere
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| fault | surface along which rocks move when they pass their elastic limit and break
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| earthquake | vibarations produced when rocks break along a fault
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| normal fault | rock above the fault surfaces moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface
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| reverse fault | break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface
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| strike-slip fault | break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without much vertical movement
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| wave | rhythmic movement that carries energy through matter and space
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| seismic wave | wave generated by earthquake
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| focus | the point where this energy release first occurs
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| primary wave | cause particals in rocks to move back and forth in the direction that the wave is traveling
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| secondary wave | cause of particals to move at right angles to the direction of wave travel
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| surface wave | move rock particals in a backward rolling motion
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| epicenter | is the point on earth's surface directly
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