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Earthquakes
30 cards·by AlexBuliis318
geology
Type of wave which travels the fastest
Primary
Result from earthquakes through saturated sediments
Liquefaction
Best use for area challenged by a geologic hazard
Park
Type of motion which causes most damage to infrastructure
Differential
Plunging zone of earthquake activity
Benioff zone
Organism which predicts earthquakes earliest
Chicken
Cause of over 2000 earthquakes in central US
Insippient ridge
Downslope movement of regolith
Mass wasting
Damaged by differential movement
Infrastructure
Site of largest earthquake in North America
New Madrid
Site of the largest measured earthquake in the US
Anchorage
Geologist who studied earthquakes
Seismologist
Break in rock across which movement occurs
Fault
Result of energy deforming the surface
Earthquake
Position on surface directly above break
Epicenter
Type of wave which causes the most damage
Surface
Caused the most damage in the 1906 San Francisco Quake
Fire
Scale based on relative damage to human structures
Mercali
Site of most deep focus earthquakes
Subduction Zone
Break in rock across which there is no movement
Joint
Site of most earthquakes
Mid Oceanic Ridge
Mass wasting event underneath the ocean
Turbidity Flow
Kind of wave where particles move perpendicular to the direction of dispersal of energy
Secondary
Paper trace of earth movement
Seismograph
First consequences of a gas leak
Suffocation
Scale which measures magnitude
Richter
Large high energy wave passing through deep water
Tsunami
Earthquake cause of damage to tall buildings
Motion
Site of the first break in rock
Focus
Safest material for houses in an earthquake zone
Wood