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... 13. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What do the seismic waves cause? _______________________________________________________________ ...
... 13. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What do the seismic waves cause? _______________________________________________________________ ...
01 - Mayfield City Schools
... 13. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What do the seismic waves cause? _______________________________________________________________ ...
... 13. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What do the seismic waves cause? _______________________________________________________________ ...
Chapter 8 Section 1 Guided Reading
... 13. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What do the seismic waves cause? _______________________________________________________________ ...
... 13. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What do the seismic waves cause? _______________________________________________________________ ...
Water in Motion
... 2. The Pacific Ocean is the largest covering 166 million square kilometers (64 million square miles) of the surface with an average depth of 4200 meters (14,000 ft). 3. At nearly half the size, the Atlantic Ocean occupies 83 million square kilometers (32 million square miles) with an average depth o ...
... 2. The Pacific Ocean is the largest covering 166 million square kilometers (64 million square miles) of the surface with an average depth of 4200 meters (14,000 ft). 3. At nearly half the size, the Atlantic Ocean occupies 83 million square kilometers (32 million square miles) with an average depth o ...
Geology 120 Problem Set #3 Ch. 8-10 due 3/16 Metamorphic Rocks
... 7. You find a fossil bone fragment in your back yard – laboratory analysis reveals a C-14 concentrations that is 0.352 as great as modern plants. Calculate the age of your sample. ...
... 7. You find a fossil bone fragment in your back yard – laboratory analysis reveals a C-14 concentrations that is 0.352 as great as modern plants. Calculate the age of your sample. ...
Earthquake-generated tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea
... [2] Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea have often caused severe damage and loss of lives. Although they are less frequent than those of the Pacific or Indian oceans, some of them are well known from historical accounts, such as those following the M > 8, 365 AD and 1303 earthquakes near Crete and the ...
... [2] Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea have often caused severe damage and loss of lives. Although they are less frequent than those of the Pacific or Indian oceans, some of them are well known from historical accounts, such as those following the M > 8, 365 AD and 1303 earthquakes near Crete and the ...
to Ch. 8 Notes
... 14. Modified Mercalli scale: a measure of how strong an earthquake felt and how much damage it did at a particular location 15. Moment magnitude: a more precise measure of earthquake magnitude than the Richter scale, which is derived from the amount of displacement that occurs along a fault zone and ...
... 14. Modified Mercalli scale: a measure of how strong an earthquake felt and how much damage it did at a particular location 15. Moment magnitude: a more precise measure of earthquake magnitude than the Richter scale, which is derived from the amount of displacement that occurs along a fault zone and ...
Earthquakes2010
... • Particles that move back and forth in the same direction as the wave. • Compressional waves (similar to sound waves). • Fastest moving ...
... • Particles that move back and forth in the same direction as the wave. • Compressional waves (similar to sound waves). • Fastest moving ...
Oceans: Chapters 19, 20, and 21
... 30. If high tide is at 4:00pm today, at about what time will high tide occur tomorrow? 31. The curving of the path of ocean currents and wind belts is called _____. 32. What is the cause of deep currents? 33. Calling a tsunami a tidal wave is misleading because it is not caused by ____. 34. What for ...
... 30. If high tide is at 4:00pm today, at about what time will high tide occur tomorrow? 31. The curving of the path of ocean currents and wind belts is called _____. 32. What is the cause of deep currents? 33. Calling a tsunami a tidal wave is misleading because it is not caused by ____. 34. What for ...
GRADE TWO
... seismograph needle moves along with the incoming earthquake waves the point on Earth’s surface directly above the origin of an earthquake ...
... seismograph needle moves along with the incoming earthquake waves the point on Earth’s surface directly above the origin of an earthquake ...
Easter-GCSE-Geog-Revision-Lecture-2015
... for survivors. The Disasters Emergency Committee spent £40m on rebuilding projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, following a major appeal for aid. A new Indian and Pacific Ocean tsunami warning system became operational in 2006, so that warning of future tsunamis can be given. This system was crucial ...
... for survivors. The Disasters Emergency Committee spent £40m on rebuilding projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, following a major appeal for aid. A new Indian and Pacific Ocean tsunami warning system became operational in 2006, so that warning of future tsunamis can be given. This system was crucial ...
The Science of Tsunamis
... resulting waves can even travel faster than the wind that generated them. Waves can travel great distances, often gaining strength and speed by combining with other waves or by the addition of more wind energy. A wave in Hawaii might have begun during a storm in Alaska, arriving on the beach with li ...
... resulting waves can even travel faster than the wind that generated them. Waves can travel great distances, often gaining strength and speed by combining with other waves or by the addition of more wind energy. A wave in Hawaii might have begun during a storm in Alaska, arriving on the beach with li ...
Webquest 14
... 9. On the “Spreading the Motion” screen, fill in the blanks: “Tectonic plates are somewhat _______________. The motion between them is not confined entirely to their own boundaries. The motion extends into their _______________ and is spread out among a system of __________________ all around the pl ...
... 9. On the “Spreading the Motion” screen, fill in the blanks: “Tectonic plates are somewhat _______________. The motion between them is not confined entirely to their own boundaries. The motion extends into their _______________ and is spread out among a system of __________________ all around the pl ...
earthquakes
... • The port city of Padang (population of 900,000) was in chaos on Thursday, October 1, after a powerful M7.6 earthquake struck the island of Sumatra on Wednesday. • Fires were burning, sirens blaring, dazed residents wandering in streets covered with rubble, and hundreds trapped beneath collapsed bu ...
... • The port city of Padang (population of 900,000) was in chaos on Thursday, October 1, after a powerful M7.6 earthquake struck the island of Sumatra on Wednesday. • Fires were burning, sirens blaring, dazed residents wandering in streets covered with rubble, and hundreds trapped beneath collapsed bu ...
Lecture 10A / Earthquakes
... Elastic rebound theory - Stress builds up until rocks deform elastically and then break, releasing energy Quake = A sudden release of stored energy causing vibrations (seismic waves) in rock The size of a quake the amount of built-up stress ...
... Elastic rebound theory - Stress builds up until rocks deform elastically and then break, releasing energy Quake = A sudden release of stored energy causing vibrations (seismic waves) in rock The size of a quake the amount of built-up stress ...
Types of Ocean waves
... • Waves that run independent of their generating force (such as impact waves) are called free waves. Impact meaning hitting things like the shore ...
... • Waves that run independent of their generating force (such as impact waves) are called free waves. Impact meaning hitting things like the shore ...
S05_ISNS4359Paper - The University of Texas at Dallas
... eruption of your choice, so you understand it well enough to a) relate it to dynamic Earth processes, b) explain the event and the damage it caused, and c) summarize its importance and impact on society. First, decide on a topic, do a little research to make sure you can locate some information at t ...
... eruption of your choice, so you understand it well enough to a) relate it to dynamic Earth processes, b) explain the event and the damage it caused, and c) summarize its importance and impact on society. First, decide on a topic, do a little research to make sure you can locate some information at t ...
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
... meet its consequences. A scheme to improve the coverage in the Indian Ocean has been agreed upon, and the establishement ot the Regional Tsunami Watch Providers will be one of the major decisions for the next meeting of the ICG in April 2009 in Thailand. Numerous activities for capacity building and ...
... meet its consequences. A scheme to improve the coverage in the Indian Ocean has been agreed upon, and the establishement ot the Regional Tsunami Watch Providers will be one of the major decisions for the next meeting of the ICG in April 2009 in Thailand. Numerous activities for capacity building and ...
Essentials of Geology, 3rd edition
... Normal faulting drops the seabed; thrusting raises it. This displaces the entire volume of overlying water. A giant mound (or trough) forms on the sea surface. This feature may be enormous (up to a 10,000 mi2 area). Feature collapse creates waves that race rapidly away. ...
... Normal faulting drops the seabed; thrusting raises it. This displaces the entire volume of overlying water. A giant mound (or trough) forms on the sea surface. This feature may be enormous (up to a 10,000 mi2 area). Feature collapse creates waves that race rapidly away. ...
Tsunami
A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: 津波, lit. ""harbor wave"";English pronunciation: /tsuːˈnɑːmi/), also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. In being generated by the displacement of water, a tsunami contrasts both with a normal ocean wave generated by wind and with tides, which are generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun on bodies of water.Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves, although this usage is not favored by the scientific community because tsunamis are not tidal in nature. Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called ""wave train"". Wave heights of tens of meters can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with at least 230,000 people killed or missing in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his late-5th century BC History of the Peloponnesian War, that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes, but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown. Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.