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Earthquake Definitions
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- 1Define Stressthe force per unit area acting on or within a body
- 2Define Strainthe change in shape of a body is response to stress
- 3Define seismographa device which receives and records seismic vibrations
- 4Define seismometera device which receives seismic vibrations and converts them into a signal which can be transmitted and recorded
- 5Define seismogramthe paper or electronic record made by a seismograph
- 6Define Intensitythe measure of the surface damage caused by an earthquake
- 7Define the Mercalli scalemeasures the intensity of an earthquake and is based on the effects that are felt in the area
- 8Define magnitudea measure of the amount of strain energy released by an earthquake
- 9Define isoseismal linea line on a map which joins up points of equal intensity, separating zones of different intensities
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- Undergraduate Geology - Part 1 (Earthquakes) FlashCards sobre Earthquake Definitions, criado por siobhan.quirk em 08-05-2013.
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