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What is a fault?
What is a focus?
Where is an epicenter?
What produces earthquakes?
What are the characteristics of P and S waves (speed, direction of wave energy, what can they
travel through)
What is a time-travel graph?
Where do earthquakes occur?
What is the most active earthquake zone on Earth?
Magnitude is a measure of ?
What measurement scale is used today and how is it calculated?
What is liquefaction?
What causes tsunamis?
What is the name of Earth’s outer layer?
What main elements is Earth’s core composed of ?
What is the crust and upper mantle are called ?
Where is the Moho?
Why is the inner core solid?
The continental crust is mainly what kind of rock?
The oceanic crust is what kind of rock?
What is the name of the layer directly below the crust?
What is the name of the soft, weak layer of rock below the lithosphere?
What is elastic rebound?
Smaller earthquakes following large earthquakes are called?
Where do surface and body waves travel?
What are the two types of measurements used to describe the size of an earthquake?
What do we call an area along a fault that has had no activity for a long time?