Term
how did most earthquakes cause?
[image] |
|
Definition
| Most earthquakes are caused by lithospheric plates moving against each other. |
|
|
Term
| how did Plate tectonic stresses build up? |
|
Definition
| -until enough energy is stored to overcome the frictional forces at plate boundaries. |
|
|
Term
The magnitude of an earthquake
[image]
|
|
Definition
| - is a measure of the amplitude of an earthquake’s waves. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| -logarithmic, meaning that each increase of one point on the scale represents a factor of ten increase in wave amplitude and a factor of about thirty increase in energy. |
|
|
Term
| An earthquake’s intensity |
|
Definition
| -is a subjective,measure of how strong an earthquake felt and how much damage it did at any given location. |
|
|
