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Earthquake
Of or pertaining to the natural phenomenon when tectonic plates slide or move causing the Earth's surface also move which causes devastating damage to cities and towns.
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Attenuation
Natural environment; Earthquake
The decrease in seismic signal amplitude caused by spreading of the wave and absorption and scattering of seismic energy by the materials of the earth as a wave propagates from a source.
B value
Natural environment; Earthquake
A measure of the relative frequency of the occurrence of earthquakes of different sizes.
Fault-plane solution
Natural environment; Earthquake
The use of seismic waves radiating from an earthquake and recorded at several stations to determine the attitude of a fault producing an earthquake and the direction of slip.
Oblique-slip fault
Natural environment; Earthquake
A fault with both strike-slip and dip-slip movement.
Magnitude, surface-wave
Natural environment; Earthquake
The magnitude of an earthquake determined from surface waves.
Right-lateral fault
Natural environment; Earthquake
A strike-slip fault on which displacement of the block opposite the observer is to the right.
Mantle (of the earth)
Natural environment; Earthquake
That part of the earth between the crust and the core.
