Faults
Famous Earthquakes
Protection
Vocab
Waves
100
Normal, reverse, and strike-slip.
What are the three faults?
100
Major earthquake in California on April 6,1906.
What is the San Francisco earthquake?
100
By building earthquakes with this structure, it helps buildings to stand up to vibrations that occur during earthquakes.
What is seismic-safe structures?
100
Vibrations produced by the breaking of a rock.
What is an earthquake?
100
Seismic waves are measured with this instrument.
What is the seismograph?
200
Break in rock caused by tensional forces, pulls rocks apart, and forces the rock up and below the surface.
What is normal fault.
200
1994 was the year this earthquake occured, which killed 51 people.
What is the Northridge earthquake?
200
Today in California, some buildings are now supported by this flexible and circular object made from a mix of rubber and steel.
What is moorings?
200
Wave generated by an earthquake travel through earth.
What are seismic waves?
200
Wave that cause particles in rocks to move back and forth in the same direction that the wave is traveling.
What are primary waves?
300
Break in rock caused by compressional forces, squeezes rocks, forces surfaces up and over below the rock surfaces.
What is reverse faults
300
The number of seconds of a famous earthquake which inspired the name of this team.
What is 49ers?
300
If you make sure these are held securely in place, you reduce the chance of fire and broken glass
What are water heaters and gas appliances?
300
The point on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus.
What is the Earth's epicenter?
300
This wave moves rock particles in a backward, rolling motion and a side-to-side, swaying motion.
What are surface waves?
400
A limit of how far a rock can bend.
What is the elastic limit?
400
The magnitude of this famous earthquake was 7.8, this one was not in the U.S.
What is the earthquake in Turkey?
400
Always seek shelter here during an earthquake.
What are a sturdy table or a doorway?
400
The height of the lines traced on the paper of a seismograph.
What is the magnitude?
400
This wave is the fastest wave
What is the P-wave
500
The largest fault in California which stretches 1,100 km through the state.
What is the San Andreas Fault.
500
This famous earthquake occured in 2010 at a catastrophic magnitude of 7.0 Mw.
What is the earthquake in Haiti?
500
Be careful to stay from beaches or this natural disaster may occur after shaking stops.
What are Tsunamis?
500
This occurs when wet soil acts more like a liquid during an earthquake.
What is liquefaction?
500
What wave causes rock particles to to move at right angles to the direction of the wave travel.
What is a secondary wave?
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