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| caused by an abrupt shifting of rock, called a fault |
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| How is the size of an earthquake indicated? |
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| it is indicated by a number called the magnitude |
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| a place where the movement first occured in the fault |
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| What devastating event is one of the leading causes of death during an earthquake? |
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| a collapsing of a building |
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| Plates are thick slabs of rock that make up the outermost 100 kilometers or so of the Earth. |
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| What are the four different types of faults? |
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| There is the normal fault, the reverse fault, strike-slip fault, and dip-slip fault. |
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| What happens in a strike-slip fault? |
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| the plates meet evenly and slide against each other horizontally |
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| Where do 95% of all earthquakes occur? |
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| 95% of all earthquakes occur at active plate boundaries (places such as Alaska, California, Japan, etc.) |
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