Earthquakes

Earthquakes are caused by the movement of Tectonic Plates beneath the Earth's surface. It will result in the vibration of Earth's surface depending on the intensity, causing damage What are scientists name who studies earthquakes? A seismologist studies earthquakes. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_scientists_name_who_studies_earthquakes#ixzz16 As3N000 What are tectonic plates and how do they move? Tectonic plates are segments of the Earth's lithosphere, the hard rocky outer shell composed of the crust and the uppermost... Popularity: 31 Tools: Recategorize What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of the continental crust? The oceanic plate is made of denser rock than the continental crust, so the oceanic plate gets subducted (pushed underneath)... Popularity: 29 Tools: Recategorize What are plate tectonics? Plate tectonics is the study of the individual large masses of material on the surface of the earth, and how they relate to and... Popularity: 25 Tools: Recategorize What happens during an earthquake? An earthquake occurs when two tectonic plates crash into each other at different speeds underneath the earths surface. During an... Popularity: 18 Tools: Recategorize How can an earthquake affet people? it can kill them or injure them Popularity: 17 Tools: Recategorize

How do plate tectonics move? The main features of plate tectonics are: The Earth's surface is covered by a series of crustal plates. The plates are composed... Popularity: 9 Tools: Recategorize What causes the plates to move? Someone put here the ocean. This is entirely incorrect. The correct reason for the plates to constantly move is movements in the... Popularity: 8 Tools: Recategorize Why do tectonic plates move? Tectonic plates are composed of the crust and upper mantle rock which is lighter than the more dense mantle. Rising and falling... Popularity: 8 Tools: Recategorize What are the study of earthquakes called? Seismology.Someone who studies and researches earthquake activity and the mechanical properties of earth is called a Seismologist. Popularity: 2 Tools: Recategorize How many major tectonic plates are there? there are seven different MAJOR TECTONIC PLATES Popularity: 2 Tools: Recategorize What geological process causes earthquakes? Earthquakes are caused by the build up or accumulation of pressure (more correctly termed stress). This accumulation of stress... Popularity: 2 Tools: Recategorize What happens in areas that might account for so many earthquakes? Popularity: 1 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Where most earthquake take place?

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Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Earthquakes occur in many regions of the world. Why are there no major earthquakes in Florida? There have been earthquakes in Florida, but there has been several shocks there. Only one was big enough to cause damage. It was... Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize How many people have died from earthquakes in america? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How many people had died on the organ trial? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Did anyon ehelp China recover after the Tangshan earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Why do earthquakes start at all? That heat from the earth's mantle causes the tectonic or lithospheric plates of the earth's crust to move away or toward each... Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize How does earthquakes stop? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What happened after kobe earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How long is the verrazano narrows bridge? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What are the impacts of earthquakes on people and their activities? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How big are the earthquakes? The earthquakes will be 90%-81% of the largest 40,000km long. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize How is the earthquake in New Castle made? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer

How do you get a kanto starter in emerald? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Where do earthquakes usually occur? Earthquakes usually occur at the boundaries of Earth's plates. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize When was the World Series delayed earthquake happened? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Where and when was the largest earthquake in the world? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What is the plate tectonic theory? that the earth crust are made up of all different plates Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What were the causes of Gujrat Earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How can you know that sunami or earthquake is going too come? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Effects of earthquakes? Earthquakes are very destructive nature fightback . Some Earthquakes bring landslides , loss of lives and properties . When an... Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize How do you know when an earthquake is going to happen? please answer my question Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize When do earthquakes happen? Earthquakes can happen anywhere, but are more likely in areas where the Earth's crustal "plates" are moving in relation to each...

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A seismometer. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What was the biggest earthquake? The recorded earthquake of highest magnitude was of 9.7 in chile. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What kinds of earthquake are there? volcanic earthquake - caused by volcanic eruptions tectonic earthquake - caused by the movements of the earth's crust Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What is the plate tectonics model? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How earthquake lead tsunami? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How do you prepare for earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How do earthquake happen? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What country had the largest earthquake recorded? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What country has the largest recorded earthquake? Chile on May 18, 1960. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What is the greatest number on the Richter Scale? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Where are the fault lines of mexico? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What is earthquake intensity? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer

Can a bridge hold up to a earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What is plate tectonics and its illustration? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What are people who study earthquakes called? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What causes earthquake in japan? most likely the tension bu ilt from the tectonic plates over the years which causes the earthquakes? no clue but that'd be my... Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Volcanoes and earthquakes? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How many earthquakes have happend? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How can people prepare for an earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What causes the Earth's plates to move? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer All about earthquakes? All about earthquakes is everything you need to know about earthquakes, googl it you dodo Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What was the longest earthquake? The longest earthquake was in Lisbon, Portugal in 1755 and it lasted 10 minutes. It was felt as far away as Africa. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize How do earthquakes start and last for? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer

Whats the most recent earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What is the biggest earthquake ever? Chile was the biggest earthquake ever it measured 9.5 on the richter scale and it was in 1960 Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What was the strongest earthquake in the world? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What cause cyclone? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Where are earthquakes located? On the ocean floor Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What is the relationship between earthquakes and volcanoes? The earthquake activity of numerous volcanoes is closely monitored to provide warning signs of an imminent eruption. Large... Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Is alaska richer than Africa? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer How do you predict earthquakes? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What is the conflict of the story? The conflict is when something exciting is gonna happen Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize How did the tsunami on boxing day start was there an earthquake in the sea? yeah

Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What is the biggest Earthquake? The biggest earthquake measured 9.5 on the ritcher scale. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Can you predict a earthquake? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer When do earthquakes stop? They will Never stop. They are a natural thing, so therefore we cannot do anything about them. Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize What are some Earthquake hazards? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Why are there earthquakes and volcanoes? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What natural processes make San Francisco at risk from powerful earthquakes? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer What are earthquakes in Japan? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic plate boundaries? Popularity: 0 Tools: Recategorize Needs Answer

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hat Is Seismology? Seismology is the study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the earth. A seismologist is a scientist who studies earthquakes and seismic waves. What Are Seismic Waves?

Seismic waves are the waves of energy caused by the sudden breaking of rock within the earth or an explosion. They are the energy that travels through the earth and is recorded on seismographs. Types of Seismic Waves There are several different kinds of seismic waves, and they all move in different ways. The two main types of waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the planet like ripples on water. Earthquakes radiate seismic energy as both body and surface waves. Body Waves Traveling through the interior of the earth, body waves arrive before the surface waves emitted by an earthquake. These waves are of a higher frequency than surface waves. P Waves The first kind of body wave is the P wave or primary wave. This is the fastest kind of seismic wave, and, consequently, the first to 'arrive' at a seismic station. The P wave can move through solid rock and fluids, like water or the liquid layers of the earth. It pushes and pulls the rock it moves through just like sound waves push and pull the air. Have you ever heard a big clap of thunder and heard the windows rattle at the same time? The windows rattle because the sound waves were pushing and pulling on the window glass much like P waves push and pull on rock. Sometimes animals can hear the P waves of an earthquake. Dogs, for instance, commonly begin barking hysterically just before an earthquake 'hits' (or more specifically, before the surface waves arrive). Usually people can only feel the bump and rattle of these waves. P waves are also known as compressional waves, because of the pushing and pulling they do. Subjected to a P wave, particles move in the same direction that the the wave is moving in, which is the direction that the energy is traveling in, and is sometimes called the 'direction of wave propagation'. Click here to see a P wave in action.

Figure 1 - A P wave travels through a medium by means of compression and dilation. Particles are represented by cubes in this model. Image 2000-2006 Lawrence Braile, used with permission.

S Waves The second type of body wave is the S wave or secondary wave, which is the second wave you feel in an earthquake. An S wave is slower than a P wave and can only move through solid rock, not through any liquid medium. It is this property of S waves that led seismologists to conclude that the Earth's outer core is a liquid. S waves move rock particles up and down, or side-to-side--perpindicular to the direction that the wave is traveling in (the direction of wave propagation). Click here to see a S wave in action.

Figure 2 - An S wave travels through a medium. Particles are represented by cubes in this model. Image 2000-2006 Lawrence Braile, used with permission.

If you'd like to try your hand at making your own P and S waves, try this little experiment. Surface Waves Travelling only through the crust, surface waves are of a lower frequency than body waves, and are easily distinguished on a seismogram as a result. Though they arrive after body waves, it is surface waves that are almost enitrely responsible for the damage and destruction associated with earthquakes. This damage and the strength of the surface waves are reduced in deeper earthquakes. Love Waves

The first kind of surface wave is called a Love wave, named after A.E.H. Love, a British mathematician who worked out the mathematical model for this kind of wave in 1911. It's the fastest surface wave and moves the ground from side-to-side. Confined to the surface of the crust, Love waves produce entirely horizontal motion.Click here to see a Love wave in action.

Figure 3 - A Love wave travels through a medium. Particles are represented by cubes in this model. Image 2000-2006 Lawrence Braile, used with permission.

Rayleigh Waves The other kind of surface wave is the Rayleigh wave, named for John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, who mathematically predicted the existence of this kind of wave in 1885. A Rayleigh wave rolls along the ground just like a wave rolls across a lake or an ocean. Because it rolls, it moves the ground up and down, and side-to-side in the same direction that the wave is moving. Most of the shaking felt from an earthquake is due to the

Rayleigh wave, which can be much larger than the other waves. Click here to see a Rayleigh wave in action.