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| a force that acts on rocks to change its shape or volume. |
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| the stress force that pulls on the crust. |
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| the stress force that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks. |
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| strees that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions. |
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| the rock that lies above a fault. |
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| the rock that lies below a fault. |
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| a type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward. |
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| a type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways with little up-or-down motion. |
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| an upward fold in rock formed by compession of earths crust. |
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| a downward fold in rock formed by compression in Earth's crust. |
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| a landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface. |
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| the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath earths surface. |
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| the point beneath Earth's surfac where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake. |
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| the point on earths surface directly above an earthquakes focus. |
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| a type of seismic wave that compreses and expands ground. |
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| a type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down or side to side. |
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| a type of seissmic wave that forms P waves and S waves reach earths surface. |
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| a scale that rates earthquakes according to their intensity and how much damage cause in a particular place. |
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| the measurement of an earthquakes streangth based on seismic waves and movement along faults. |
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| a scale that rates an earthquakes magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves. |
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| vibrations that travel through earth carrying energy released during an earthquake. |
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| a scale that rates earthquakes by estimating the total of energy released by an earthquake. |
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| the record of an earthquake seismic waves produced by a seismograph. |
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| the force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves accross another surface. |
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| the procces by which earthquakes violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into mud. |
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| a giant wave usully caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor. |
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| an earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake in the same area. |
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| a building mounted on bearings designed to absorb the energy of an earthquake. |
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