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| A break or crack in the earth's surface caused by stress within the crust. |
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| Type of stress that pulls rocks apart |
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| Type of stress involved in a normal fault |
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| Type of stress that squeezes rocks until it folds or breaks |
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| Type of stress involved in the creation of a reverse fault |
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| Type of stress involved in a strike-slip (or transform) fault |
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| Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions horizontally |
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| Type of fault created through tensional stress |
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| Type of fault in which the hanging wall slides down the face of a footwall |
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| Type of fault created by compressional stress |
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| Strike-slip or transform fault |
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| Type of fault created by shear stress |
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| Strike-slip or transform fault |
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| Type of fault in which broken sections of the crust slide past one another horizontally |
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| Term that describes rocks that are bendable |
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| Term that describes rocks that are easily broken |
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| The shaking of the earth that is the direct result of movement inside the earth |
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| The point inside the surface of the Earth where earthquake energy is released or the earthquake originates from |
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| The point on the Earth's surface that feels the most powerful shaking |
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| P-Wave (What does the P stand for) |
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| S-Wave (What does the S stand for) |
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| L-Wave (What does the L stand for) |
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| Love Wave (or surface wave) |
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| The fastest of all earthquake waves |
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The second fastest of the earthquake waves |
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| The slowest of the three earthquake waves |
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| The most damaging of the three seismic waves |
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| Type of waves that causes rocks to move in a spiral like pattern due to motions in all directions |
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| Type of wave that causes rocks to move parallel to wave direction |
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| Type of wave that causes rocks to move at right angles to the wave direction |
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| Scale that measures the energy released by an earthquake |
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| Scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake through witness accounts or damage reports |
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| Instrument that measures earthquake waves |
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| Type of wave that causes the ground to shake in an earthquake |
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| The record of an earthquake created by a seismograph |
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| Smaller tremors that follow the main larger earthquake |
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| Large sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake or landslide |
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| The process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud, causing major damage |
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| The most famous plate boundary of the United States that runs through California and Northern Mexico |
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| Location for the largest earthquake in the continental US (the 48 states) |
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| Location for the largest earthquake in US history |
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