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| When a rock breaks the move on surfaces called faults |
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| A vibration produced by the breaking of a rock |
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| the force that pulls rocks apart |
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| the force that squeezes rocks together |
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| The force that causes rocks on either side of a fault to slide past each other |
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| Break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface |
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| Break in rock caused by tension forces, where rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface |
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| Break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without much vertical movement |
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| Measures of the energy released during an earthquake |
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| occur when wet soil acts more like liquid during an earthquake |
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| When a rock breaks the move on surfaces called faults |
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| A vibration produced by the breaking of a rock |
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| the force that pulls rocks apart |
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| the force that squeezes rocks together |
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| The force that causes rocks on either side of a fault to slide past each other |
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| Break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface |
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| Break in rock caused by tension forces, where rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface |
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| Break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without much vertical movement |
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| Measures of the energy released during an earthquake |
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| occur when wet soil acts more like liquid during an earthquake |
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| instrument used to register earthquake waves and record the time that each arrived |
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| in an earthquake, the point below Earth's surface where energy is released in the form of seismic waves |
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| point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus |
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| wave generated by an earthquake |
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| seismic sea wave that begins over an earthquake focus and can be highly destructive when it crashes on shore |
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