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The wave produced by an earthquake.

What is a seismic wave?

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The type of fault that occurs when rocks on either side of the fault surface move past each other without much upward or downward movement?
What is a strike-slip fault?
100

The speed a tsunami wave travels.

What is a 600 mph?

100
Tension causes this type of fault.
What is a normal fault?
100
The type of wave that moves through Earth by causing particles of rock to move at right angles to the direction of the wave travel.
What is a secondary wave?
200
When the force of rocks is great enough that they break and produce vibrations.
What is an earthquake?
200
Faults that are caused by shear.
What is a strike-slip fault?
200

Divergence causes this type of fault.

What is a reverse fault?

200

The point below Earth's surface where energy is released during an earthquake .

What is the focus or hypocenter?

200
Scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
300

The most destruction during an earthquake happens to these.

What are structures?

300

The safest place to be during an earthquake

What is outside away from buildings?

300

The point at which the pressure is released and an earthquake happens

What is the focus or hypocenter

300
An underwater earthquake causes this event.
What is a tsumani?
300
Then number of seismograph station readings necessary to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is 3 seismograph stations?
400

The force that squeezes rocks.

What is pressure?

400

The process that causes wet soil to act more like a liquid than a solid during an earthquake.

What is liquefaction.

400
Another name for a seismic seawave.
What is a tsunami?
400

The force that causes pressure to build up along a fault

What is movement tectonic plates?

400

The scale that measures the damage caused by an earthquake.

What is the Richter Scale?

500

The force that causes slippage in rock.

What is shear?

500

The farther away the seismic waves are from the  epicenter the energy of waves ?

What is decrease?

500
The type of fault where rock above the fault's surface moves downward in relation to rock below the fault surface.
What is a normal fault?
500

The point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake focus.

What is an epicenter?

500

What seismographs measure.

What is Magnitude?