Earthquakes: Causes, Keywords & Scales

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Across
  1. 3. Scale The scale that measures the intensity of earthquakes
  2. 4. Waves Energy in form of waves, generated by an earthquake, that passes through the crust
  3. 7. The boundary where two plates slide past each other
  4. 8. Scale The scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake
  5. 9. The circular currents that create friction with the crust above and causes it to move.
  6. 11. The vibration, sometimes violent, of the Earth’s surface that follows a release of energy in the Earth’s crust.
Down
  1. 1. The boundary where two continental crusts collide
  2. 2. The point on the Earth's surface which is vertically above the focus of an earthquake
  3. 5. A naturally occurring event which threatens human activity.
  4. 6. The plate boundary where an oceanic plate and continental plate move towards each other
  5. 10. Point beneath the surface where the earthquake occurs.