Relier Pairs Earthquake vocab Version en ligne Match the vocab par Melissa Byrd 1 Epicenter 2 seismic waves 3 focus 4 S waves (secondary waves) 5 seismology 6 Faults 7 P waves (Primary waves) 8 Seismograph 9 mechanical wave 10 compressional wave 11 surface waves 12 earthquake travel through liquids and solids, push and pull, faster, arrive first a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake A wave that requires a medium through which to travel Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other. a wave in which matter moves back and forth in the direction the wave is moving seismic waves that travel along the Earth's surface A device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through Earth vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake travel through solids only; cause rock to move in a side-to-side or up & down motion, slower waves The study of earthquakes
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