What is vibrations caused by the rupture and sudden movement of rocks along the break and cracks of Earth's crust.
earth quakes
100
a fracture in the earth causing two blocks to slide past each other horizontally
What is a strike-slip fault
100
what tool measures magnitude and uses the amount of ground motion at a given distance from an earth quake to determine the magnitude of the earth quake
What is a richter magnitude scale
100
what wave can travel through liquids and solids and is the first wave to arrive
What is a primary wave
100
a vent in earths crust through witch molten lava flows
What is a volcano
200
The location on earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter
200
a fracture in earth's crust where two blocks of land pull apart and one subducts under the other
What is a normal fault
200
what tool measures the amount of energy released by the earthquake in order to find out the size of the fault that broke
What is a moment magnitude scale
200
the place in earth where siesmic waves originate
What is the focus
200
a large volcano with gentle slopes of balstic lave common along divergent boundaries and oceanic hot spots
What is a shield volcano
300
scientists that study earth quakes
What is a seismologist
300
a fracture in earth's crust where two blocks of land push together and upward making uplifted land.
What is a reverse fault
300
what tool evaluates the damage caused by he earth quake in order to find out how strong the earthquake was
What is a modified mercalli scale
300
the wave that can only travel through solids and arrives a few minutes after the p-wave
What is a secondary wave
300
a large steep sided volcano that results from explosive eruptions that usually happen along convergent boundaries
What is a composite volcano
400
a crack or fracture in earth's crust that usually cause earth quakes to happen
What is a fault
400
the most damaging wave
What is a surface wave
400
what device finds the epicenter
What is a seismogram
400
minus 400 points
What is -400
400
a small steep sided volcano that erupts gas rich balstic lava.
What is a cinder cone volcano
500
energy that travels as vibrations through earth
What is a seismic wave
500
the slowest wave
What is the surface wave
500
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500 points!!
500
whats is the instrument that siesmoligist use to study how big the earth quake fault was
What is seisometer
500
a location where volcanoes from far from plate boundaries