Where Do Earthquakes Occur
Earthquakes mostly happen on the parts of Earth that are by the continents.
What are continent edges
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Two blocks slide horizontally past each other.
What is a strike-slip?
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The second layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
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Volcanoes mostly form around hot places like.
What is a convergent plate boundaries?
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Large scale volcanoes with gentle slopes made from basaltic lava.
What are Shield Volcanoes?
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Earthquakes result from the buildup of active stress.
What is a plate boundry?
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Faults that are located on the divergent plate boundaries.
What is a normal faults?
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The speed of seismic waves depends.
What are temperature, pressure, and chemistry?
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The plates that lava comes out of the ground and erupts.
What is a divergent plate boundaries?
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Large steep-sided volcano made from a mixture andesitic and rhyolitic lava and ash.
What are Composite Volcanoes?
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The area called because of a lot of volcanoes and earthquakes around the coastal area.
What is The Ring Of Fire?
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One block moves up and the other moves down.
What is a reverse fault?
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The S-waves can't go through certain cores.
What is the outer core
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The further an island is from that plate it ages.
It gets older
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Small steep-sided volcano made from moderately explosive eruptions of basaltic lava.
What is a Cinder cone volcano?
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A common place for shallow earthquakes where plates separate.
What is a Divergent Plate Boundary?
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The epicenter is above the what in a earthquake.
What is the center?
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The inner core is hot and makes two types of materials.
what are iron and nickel?
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The active volcanoes are in the USA.
What are about 60 volcanoes?
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Large volcanic depression formed when a volcanoes summit collapses or is blown away by explosive activity
What is a caldera?
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What is the result when force is put onto a rock formation.
What is Rock deformation?
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Primary definition
First
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To find the epicenter you need to find the point of pressure.
What is the X-axis
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A volcano moves over the plume it stops moving.
What is dormant?
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Geologist classify volcanoes based on.
Their size, shape, and eruptive style?
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