Q2. Quiz No.1: Earthquake

It is a sudden shaking of the ground that we feel when rock layers of earth suddenly slip past one another to a new position.

it is formed when the stress on the rock pulls apart causing it to stretch.

it is formed between two different plates due to horizontal forces moving the layers of rocks parallel to the fault plane.

It is the fracture in the surface of the crust where the two blocks of rocks slip.

Scientists who study the earthquake

It is an instrument used to detect and record the strength and duration of vibrations,

It is a wave that moves backward in a circular motion as they move forward.

Seismic waves that travel through the Earth’s interior

Waves that move the rock side to side or at the right angle to the direction of the waves

It is the point on the Earth's surface located directly above the focus of an earthquake