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| a fault is a place where a rock breaks |
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| vibrations caused by breaking rocks |
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| plates pull apart at a divergent boundary |
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| plates push together found at a convergent boundary |
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| plates slipe past eachother found at transform boundary |
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| pressure wave generated by an earthquake |
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| point underground where earthquake begins |
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| point on earths surface right above the focus |
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| next fasted also underground |
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| slowest travel on surface, most distructive |
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| instrument usedx to measure earthquakes, size and location |
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| measurement of earthquake magnitude |
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| when the ground acts like a liquid during an earthquake |
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| large wave caused by an earthquake |
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| largest recent earthquake |
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| how many earthquakes occur each year |
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| how many of them can alctually be felt |
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| largest earthquake everrecorded |
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| most deadly earthquake was where |
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