Earthquakes
by Lyndy Arong
1. Moment-Magnitude Scale
1.1. More Reliable than Richter Scale
2. Epicenter
2.1. Directly above focus
3. Focus
3.1. Where the earthquake begins below ground
4. Plate Margins
4.1. Destructive
4.1.1. Where on plate goes under another
4.2. Constructive
4.2.1. When two plates float apart
4.3. Collision
4.3.1. When two plates crush against each other
4.4. Conservative
4.4.1. When two plates slide past each otger
5. Seismic Waves
6. Seismometer
7. Commonly occur on
8. Convection Currents
8.1. In mantle, cause plate movement
9. Asthenosphere
9.1. Another name for Earth's crust
10. Boundaries
10.1. Lines where tectonic plates meet
11. Tension
12. Tectonic Plates
12.1. Are Earth's Crust
12.2. Float on the mantle
13. Landforms
13.1. Mountains
13.2. Volcanoes
13.3. Valleys
14. Tremors
15. Divergent Plate Boundary
15.1. Apart, dividing rift that have a physical appearance of a rift boundary or seafloor spreading
16. Transform Plate Boundary
16.1. This boundary is where plates are sliding past one another. An example is the San Andreas fault line in California, US
17. Convergent Plate Boundary
17.1. This boundary is where plates collide with each other creating mountains.
18. Magnitude
18.1. How strong the earthquake is
19. Belt
19.1. Areas where earthquakes occur
20. P Waves
20.1. Push and Pull Waves
21. S waves
21.1. Shake waves
22. Cause these to run through the ground
23. Energy
24. Continental
25. Oceanic
26. release
27. release
28. occur along
29. Earthquake waves
30. are caused by
31. occur in the
32. start at the
33. How strong an earthquake is
34. occur because of the movement of
35. Two types of plates
36. Types of Plate Boundaries
37. Happen in a
