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- 2. What is the strongest seismic wave?
- 5. Are also called transverse waves.
- 10. Fractures in Earth where movement has occurred.
- 12. Tendency for deformed rock along a fault to spring back to kits original shape after an earthquake
- 13. How can you tell the difference between foreshock and aftershocks.
- 17. A seismic wave that travels along the surface of Earth.
- 18. What can show all three types of seismic waves
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- 1. a sphere composed mostly of an iron-nickel alloy.
- 3. a soft, comparatively weak layer
- 4. The outmost layer of Earth
- 5. An instrument that records seismic waves
- 6. Vibration of Earth produced by the rapid release of energy within the lithoshpere.
- 7. The location on Earth's surface directly above the focus.
- 8. the rocky outer layer of Earth– is divided into oceanic and continental crust.
- 9. A hazard caused by an earthquake.
- 11. What is one of Earth's major layers
- 14. What is one way to measure a earthquake?
- 15. A series of waves formed when the ocean floor shifts suddenly during an earthquake.
- 16. The point where an earthquake starts.