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Waves
Faults
Quake Parts
Scales
Tsunamis
100
The first wave or "warning signal" of an earthquake.
What is a p-wave (primary wave)
100
land moves downward
What is a normal fault
100
Where love waves and rayleigh waves radiate outward.
What is the epicenter
100
This scale purely measure the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale
100
In Japanese, tsunami literally means...
What is a harbor wave
200
A slower moving body wave which typically moves sided to side
What is an s-wave (secondary)
200
If it was a boundary, its type would be "transform".
What is a strike-slip fault
200
Visible on the earth's surface, shows where seismic activity occurs.
What is a fault
200
This scale measures damage within local regions.
What is the Mercalli Scale
200
Tsunamis are caused by these two natural disasters
What are earthquakes and landslides
300
Upon the surface of the earth, like a roller-coaster
What is a rayleigh wave
300
If plate tectonics are two block of wood, a fault would be a ________ in the wood.
What is a crack/splinter
300
The origin of an earthquake within the earth's interior.
What is a focus
300
The Moment Magnitude Scale is largely used when earthquakes are above a _____ on the _____ scale.
What is a 5.0 on the Richter Scale
300
Tsunamis travel faster than this form of transportation
What is a jet-liner.
400
Surface wave moving side-to-side.
What is a love wave
400
This fault is also a plate boundary
What is the San Andreas Fault
400
floats on the aesthenosphere and is made apart of the lithosphere
What is tectonic plate.
400
This scale would best show the damage Berkeley felt during the Fall 2014 Napa earthuake
What is the Mercalli Scale
400
This "r" word describes the tide as a tsunami approaches
What is recedes.
500
Rayleigh waves surface waves and p-waves are...
What are body waves
500
land moves vertically and horizontally
What is an oblique fault
500
(SUBTRACT 100) Body waves flow between these two features.
What is the focus and epicenter.
500
This scale compares energy with that of atomic bombs, and national energy consumption.
What is the Moment Magnitude Scale
500
(SUBTRACT 200) In what year did technology advance to end the phenomenon of "orphan tsunamis"?
What is 1960.