Earthquakes by NaTaejah Smalls

Key vocabulary:

nataejahjs0418 — 2015-03-23 12:23:12 UTC

Fault-a break in the rocks that make up earths crust, along with rocks on the other side have move past each other.

Epicenter-the point on the earths surface vertically above the focus of an earthquakes.

Focus- the point beneath earths surface at which an earthquake originates

Transform boundary-where two points slide against each other

S- wave- is one of the two main types of elastic body waves, so named because they move through the body of an object

P-wave- are a type of body wave that is the first wave to arrive at the seismograph.

after shock- a smaller earthquake following the main shock of a large earthquake.

rictor scale-a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations

In this picture........#1

nataejahjs0418 — 2015-04-07 12:01:37 UTC

In this picture there is an earthquake that took place and two of the buildings are about to fall over and the men down below are probably looking for missing people

In this picture..... Visual examples#2

nataejahjs0418 — 2015-04-07 12:05:00 UTC

in this picture, the earthquake separated the ground and the workers had to put cones up so people wouldn't drive or fall in the area

Theory of plate tectonics:type of plate movement

nataejahjs0418 — 2015-04-07 12:08:23 UTC

the plate movement in this picture is divergent because its sliding away from the other side