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Types of Faults
How big is it?
Vocabulary
Do the wave
ETC.
100
Caused by compression
What is Reverse Fault?
100
This tells you how far away the epicenter is.
What is a seismograph?
100
Place inside Earth where an earthquake starts.
What is the focus?
100
A huge ocean wave caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
100
The stress that causes folding.
What is compression?
200
Stress that pulls and stretches rock.
What is tension?
200
This meter tells you how far the sides of a fault have moved in opposite directions.
What is a creep meter?
200
A large area of flat land that has been lifted up above sea level.
What is a plateau?
200
Seismic waves that move rocks up and down like a wave in a rope.
What is S waves?
200
The place in the united states has the highest risk of earthquakes.
What is the Pacific Coast?
300
The fault that moves vertically.
What is a normal fault?
300
This meter measures vertical movement in the faults.
What is a Tiltmeter?
300
The point on the surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is an epicenter?
300
The fastest waves that arrive first.
What are P waves?
300
Earthquakes are likely to occur between two __________.
What is plates?
400
The stress that causes the normal fault.
What is tension?
400
This system measures changes in elevation, tilt of the land and horizontal movement?
What is GPS satellites?
400
The process in which shaking turns soft soil into mud.
What is liquefaction?
400
These carry energy to rocks.
What is seismic waves?
400
This is designed to reduce the amount of energy that reaches the building during an earthquake.
What is base-isolated building?
500
Stress that makes rocks move in opposite direction.
What is Shearing?
500
This scale is based on amount of damage an earthquake does.
What is a Mercalli scale?
500
A fold in the crust that bends downward into a valley.
What is syncline?
500
These waves produce the the largest disturbance and are last on the seismogram.
What are surface waves?
500
Geologist locate where faults are active, where past earthquakes have occured, and where most damage was caused to determing__________.
What is earthquake "risk"?