Earthquakes
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- AFTERSHOCK
- EPICENTER
- FAULT
- FORESHOCK
- HYPOCENTER
- MAGNITUDE
- RICHTER SCALE
- RING OF FIRE
- RUPTURE
- SEISMOGRAPH
- SHOCK WAVE
- STRIKE SLIP
- TREMOR
- TSUNAMI
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An earthquake starts where rock along a fault suddenly slips, releasing energy from a hypocenter deep underground upward to the epicenter at the surface. Seismographs trace the shaking, and the Richter scale turns those traces into a single magnitude number. Foreshocks may arrive first, aftershocks follow for weeks, and a seafloor rupture can push a tsunami across open water.
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