Across
- 2. The action of lessening in severity or intensity.
- 3. The use of resources at a rate where no more is being used up than is being replaced. Conserving resources for future use.
- 5. When continents move.
- 8. Involves any alteration to the natural or cultural environment. Can be predictable, recurrent or cyclic, or unpredictable and erratic.
- 9. Secondary tremors that may follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence.
- 10. The point on earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
- 12. Organisation that looks to protect against damage caused by natural disasters.
- 16. One plate being forced beneath another.
- 17. A series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks.
- 18. The outcome of something which could be positive or negative.
- 19. Conversion if soil into a fluid like mass during an earthquake or other seismic event.
Down
- 1. Assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake.
- 4. The basic systems and services that are needed to support an economy like transport, communication systems and electricity and water supplies.
- 6. Huge wave caused by earthquake or volcanic eruption.
- 7. A sequence of actions, natural and/or cultural, that shape and change environments, places and societies.
- 11. An exposed crack or opening in the land caused by an earthquake.
- 13. To come from different directions to reach the same point.
- 14. The portion of the earth between the crust and the core.
- 15. Set of rules that specify the minimum acceptable level of safety for constructed objects.
- 18. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.