earthquakes by baylen deaton period 4 by Baylen Deaton

dream place to live

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-24 15:21:07 UTC

when I grow up I want to live in the Florida keys. they do not usually have earthquakes but they had one with a magnitude of 5.1. the florida keys are not close to a earthquake fault that is why they do not have very many earthquakes if any

Plate tectonics

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-27 00:33:27 UTC

Plate tectonics is the theory that the earth is broken up into pieces these plates can cause faults which can cause earth quakes.

Transversal plates

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-27 00:35:47 UTC

These plates are when an area where two plates collide to cause a mountain.

Earthquakes

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-27 00:38:26 UTC

Earthquakes are formed by faults in the earths layers when the faults or plates collide or rub against each other thay can cause many different things such as mountains canyons and earthquakes.

Epicenter

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-27 00:40:25 UTC

The epicenter is where an earthy quakes center is it is where the earth quake originated. You can find the epicenter by finding out where the earthquake was fealt and drawing a circle of how far the earthquake is found then you mark an x where they intersect and that is your epicenter.

Richter scale

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-27 00:43:18 UTC

The richter scale is how an earth quake is scaled on how large the s and p waves were measured eaarth quakes can be from 1 to 8 on the richter scale

describe an earrthquake

baylensd0810 — 2015-03-31 15:08:59 UTC

I was at work when a announcement came over the entercom for everyone to get down under their desk, there was an earthquake coming. then the whole building split in half while the building started falling a part I saw people falling out of the building to their doom. as soon as it came it ended. we left and as we were leaving the building the s waves came, everyone ran as quick as they could. their were 5 dead and 23 injured I later learned that it was 6 on the ricter scale

video

baylensd0810 — 2015-04-06 14:54:30 UTC

s wave

baylensd0810 — 2015-04-07 14:39:45 UTC

an s wave is the wave that comes after the earthquake has already arrived also called the aftershock

p wave

baylensd0810 — 2015-04-07 14:43:17 UTC

p wave or primary wave comes first this is what you feel when you are part of an earthquake