Stress
Force applied over a certain area.
What is the point inside Earth where an earthquake begins?
focus or hypocenter
Magnitude measures
amount of energy released.
What is 3
Type of stress found at divergent boundaries?
What is tension.
The shaking you experience from an earthquake
what is intensity.
Which seismic wave is a compression wave?
what is a p-wave
What is compression.
When Earth's lithosphere breaks it is called
What is a fault.
Intensity is measured using this scale.
What is Mercalli
What can time difference between p and s waves tell you?
distance way from epicenter
Type of stress found at a transform boundary.
What is shear.
Energy from earthquakes.
What are seismic waves.
Which category of wave is the slowest?
Surface waves.
What scale is used today to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
What is the Richter scale.
A line that connects points of equal value on a map.
When stress isn't high enough to break rock, rock can change shape. We call this
what is deform.
Earthquakes that occur away from plate boundaries
What are intraplate earthquakes.
Which category of waves are the most destructive?
What are surface waves.
On the Richter scale, there _____ X more energy released between each value.
What is 33
The Mercalli scale is measures in values of 1 - ___.
what is 12