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| show | Rigid layer of Earth about 100km thick, made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle.
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| show | A measure of the energy released by an earthquake.
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| show | Describes the ability of the stuctures to stand up against the vibrations caused by an earthquake.
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| show | A vibration set off by a sudden movement along a fault in Earth's surface and spread across the occean in a series of long waves.
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| show | Instument used to record seismic waves.
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| show | Cone-shaped hill or mountain formed when hot magma,solids,and gas erupts onto Earth's surface through a vent.
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| show | The process of an oceanic plate colliding with and descending underneath a continental plate.
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| show | The area of the earth's surface that is derectly above the origi of an earthquake.
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| show | This country's capital city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985.
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