Seismic Waves
The fastest type of seismic wave. It can travel through the mantle and core of the Earth.
What are P-waves?
This science is the study of Earthquakes.
What is Seismology?
This is the highest number on the Richter scale.
What is 10?
Where is the most surface damage done from an earthquake?
The epicenter
The slowest mass movement
What is creep?
Types of waves that travel through the inner parts of the Earth.
What are body waves?
These are scientists that study Earthquakes.
Who are Seismologists?
The scale we use to measure how strong an Earthquake is.
What is the Richter scale?
The force done on rocks that are pressing towards each other.
What is compression?
The force behind mass movements.
What is gravity?
The seismic waves that cause the most damage on the surface.
What are surface waves?
This is the origin place of an Earthquake.
What is an Earthquake's focus?
The tool we use to measure Earthquake waves.
What is a seismograph?
This is where the epicenter of an Earthquake is located.
Where is directly above the origin of an earthquake, on the surface.
These are mass movements that occur when rocks fall freely through the air.
What are rockfalls?
These are the other main type of seismic waves other than body waves.
What are surface waves?
The force that rocks go through while being pulled apart from each other.
What is tension?
The recording made from a seismograph.
What is a seismogram?
These are fractures (breaks) in the Earth where most Earthquakes occur.
What is a fault?
These mass movements leave a crescent - shaped cliff above where they stop.
What are slumps?
Body waves that can only travel through solid rock.
What are S - Waves?
This is the process Seismologists use to pinpoint the epicenter of an Earthquake.
What is triangulation.
The time between a P - wave starts to the time an S - wave starts.
What is the S-P Interval?
Earthquakes occur in Earth's lithosphere. These are the two layers of the Earth that make up the lithosphere.
What are the Crust and Mantle?
These are mass movements with material containing a large amount of water.
What are flows? (Mudflows or Earthflows)