Terminology associated with Earthquakes
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| aftershock | show 🗑
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| anticline | show 🗑
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| show | A building mounted on bearings designed to absorb the energy of an earthquake.
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| compression | show 🗑
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| show | A change in the volume or shape of Earth's crust
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| show | The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
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| epicenter | show 🗑
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| fault | show 🗑
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| fault-block mountain | show 🗑
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| focus | show 🗑
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| show | A bend in rock that forms where part of Earth's crust is compressed
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| show | The block of rock that forms the lower half of a fault
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| show | The block or rock that forms the upper half of a fault
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| show | the process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud
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| magnitude | show 🗑
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| show | a scale that rates earthquakes according to their intensity and how much damage they cause
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| moment magnitude scale | show 🗑
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| show | a type of fault where the hanging wall slides downward; caused by tension in the crust
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| show | a type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground
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| show | a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level
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| reverse fault | show 🗑
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| Richter scale | show 🗑
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| S wave | show 🗑
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| seismic wave | show 🗑
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| seismograph | show 🗑
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| shearing | show 🗑
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| stress | show 🗑
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| strike-slip fault | show 🗑
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| surface wave | show 🗑
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| show | a downward fold in rock formed by compression in Earth's crust
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| tension | show 🗑
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| tsunami | show 🗑
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