Across
- 1. wave, an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
- 2. an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration.
- 4. wave, an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
- 6. the branch of science concerned with the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere especially as a means of forecasting the weather.
- 7. disaster a natural event such as a flood, earthquake or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
- 9. a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
Down
- 1. an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration.
- 3. scale a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph
- 5. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
- 8. typically have magnitudes between about 5.5 and 6.3, the scale is logarithmic and a difference of one represents an approximate thirtyfold difference in magnitude.