Vocabulary
This is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves
What is an Earthquake
This very small country in 2010 had an earthquake and tsunami that killed 73,000 people
What is Haiti
This Earthquake in the 1900s had a magnitude of 7.9 in Alaska on kodiak island happened what month
What is October
This is used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake
What is magnitude
This is another word For Earthquakes
What are Temblors
This earthquake in 2011 created a tsunami off the coast of
What is TÅhoku
This Earthquake in Andreanof Islands, Alaska had this magnitude
What is 8.8
What scale measures the largest wiggle in the Earthquake?
What is the Richter Scale
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, cracks in Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet. They occur where plates are subducting, spreading, slipping, or colliding.
What are Tectonic earthquakes
The earthquakes in the ocean of ________ caused a tsunami in 2004
What is the Indian ocean
This place that got struck in 1960 was the most powerful temblor recorded in history
What is Valdivia
This Earthquake was measured out with a magnitude with 5.6 and was recent
What is the pomio
These are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material.
What are Tectonic plates
The earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 8.7-9.2, was powerful enough to send a tsunami across the _______ ocean
What is the pacific ocean
What is the magnitude of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake
What is 9.2
This earthquakes was measured in magnitude with 7.7 and happened where?
What is the Caribbean earthquake