Earthquakes
The cause of an earthquake
What is the shifting and movement of tectonic plates
tears or cracks in the earth's surface caused by earthquakes
What are fissures?
In case of a tsunami, where should you go?
High ground
The four types of seismic waves
What is P, S, L, and R waves
Vibrations that travel through earth and on the surface after an earthquake
seismic waves
A break in the earths crust
what is a fault
aftershocks can last for ______
What is days, weeks, months
What is love wave
The three types of boundaries
what is convergent, divergent, and transform
The study of earthquakes
What is seismology
Tsunami’s are caused bythese
What is earthquakes
The wave type that can go through solids only
What is s wave
The strongest earthquakes come from these boundaries
Convergent
The point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins
what is a focus
Earthquakes are measured by these
What are seismographs
the first wave to be detected by a seismograph
What is P wave
The type of boundary where plates pull apart
What is a divergent boundary
The point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point
What is an epiccenter
What is a seismogram
The two types of surface waves
What are R and L waves