Chapter 8: Earth's Interior and Earthquakes

The most studied fault system in the world

• The San Andreas Fault

• The California fault

• The san Francisco fault

• the Oregon fault system

can sometimes come before a earthquake

• aftershock

• foreshoCK

• seismic waves

• elastic rebounds

what can happen soon after a earthquake

• foreshok

• seis

• aftershock

• elastic energy

_____ is derived from the amount of displacement that occurs along a fault

• richter sca

• seismograph

• seisomogram

• moment magnitude

Earthquake-related hazards include seismic shaking, landslides and mudflows, and tsunamis.

• true

• false

• not sure man...

• maybe

Liquefaction is sort of like being inside of a ....

• blender and you are the product of the smoothie

• bowl of cer

• microwave where you get really hot

• a freezer

approximately how many earthquakes are strong enough to be felt each year worldwide?

• 75

• 1000

• 10,000

• 30,000

what is the location on the surface directly above the earthquake focus called?

• epicenter

• magni

• fault

• moho

the rigid layer of earth that includes the entire crust and the uppermost part of the mantle is called the

• asthenosphere

• mesosphere

• lithosphere

• moho

the instrument that records earthquakes is called

• a seismo

• seismolog

• seismology

• seismograph