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| when an rock reaches its elastic limit |
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| the vibrations produced when a rock breaks |
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| type of fault occuring at a divergent boundary |
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| type of fault occuring at a convergent boundary |
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| type of fault occuring at a transform boundary |
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| the San Andreas fault is this type of fault |
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| waves generated by an earthquake |
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| the point where an earthquake begins |
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| the fastest type of seismic waves |
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| seismic waves that move at right angles to the direction of the wave travel |
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| the slowest type of seismic wave |
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| a tsunami is an example of this type of seismic wave |
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| the point directly above where an earthquake begins |
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| instrument used to measure seismic waves from earthquakes |
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| paper record of a seismic event (earthquake) |
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| outermost layer of the Earth |
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| inner most layer of the Earth |
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| made up of the crust and the outer most part of the mantle |
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| the energy of an earthquake |
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| scale measuring the strength of an earthquake |
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| when soil can act like liquid during an earthquake |
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| ocean waves caused by earthquakes |
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| scale that measures magnitude of an earthquake by how much damage it does |
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