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What is the sudden movements of rock along a fault cause?
Earthquakes
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What is the instrument that scientist use to record seismic waves?
Seismograph
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Earthquakes occur when movement along a fault
Quick and sudden
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What is the smallest number of seismograms needed to determine the distance of an earthquake from a particular seismic station
three
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Draw a picture of a tsunami submerging a house on whiteboard
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Where does most earthquakes occur?
Along tectonic plate boundaries
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What is an earthquake in the ocean floor causes a water wave to form?
Tsunami
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The strength of an earthquake depends in part on the…………...
number of aftershock it produces
200
During an earthquake, a large building sank down into the soil it was built on. The soil underneath this building was likely …………. (2 words)
wet and sandy
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draw a picture describing liquefaction
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Normal faults are the result of stress that……………..
pull rocks apart
300
What scale is used to describe the amount of energy released by
Moment magnitude scale
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Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, two tectonic plates are moving away from each other. Where are the earthquakes likely to occur?
normal faults
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A magnitude ( ) earthquake with shallow focus would probably cause the most damage to a city near its epicenter
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What is the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
primary waves
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What are scientist able to to predict about earthquakes?
the earthquake risk and area
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Compared to shallow-focus earthquake, a deep-focus earthquake with the same magnitude and epicenter tends to ………..
cause less damage
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By diagramming the earthquake activity along active faults, scientist may be able to to locate ………………..
seismic gaps
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What image is this?
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What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake?
Epicenter
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What is most likely to reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings?
cross braces
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What can secondary waves travel through
rocks
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What type of structure is most likely to have base isolators?
a tall office building
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