Earthquakes
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of Tectonic Plates beneath the Earth's surface. It will result in the vibration of Earth's surface depending on the intensity, causing damage.
Total questions 71800
Follow
Jeffrey A. Beard [17]
made this minor change to the answer of Why are more people killed during earthquakes than during volcanic eruptions 42 minutes ago
ID1507033297
added How do you reduce loss of life in an earthquake to Earthquakes 48 minutes ago
ID1667845740
wrote the first answer to Why are more people killed during earthquakes than during volcanic eruptions 55 minutes ago
ID1507033297
added Why are more people killed during earthquakes than during volcanic eruptions to Earthquakes 26 May 2012 13:29
Answers
Joshydude
Jmeloneearthscience
Klamper
Helenxue
Koolnoor
Edits
Docjason
Mannydlr
Theprismgroup
SBDW1
Jponbac
Organization
BrebnerP
RHYFOR
Lily of the valley
Supacoolkid999
Bobbyjoedaddy
Questions
Chickencandletasting
Teambakerr
Tsking82
Amurph
Rekhamchala Rekha
Community
D4est
Motion is always defined relative to something. On Earth, motion is relative to the ground, and our brains are usually locked...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
More than 100 and they're still coming. mate theres more than 600 theres been about 2000 now. Ok Really theres been 4153, you can...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
The crust is referred to as the outer skin of the planet, where all life as we know it exists. There are two types of...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Landslides and avalanches are similar, because they are formed where unstable masses fall down a mountainside under gravity. They...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
That's what I need to know
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Cracks in the Earth's crust are faults.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Earthquake intensity is measured using the Modified Mercalli Scale. The scale indicates the perceived damage from an earthquake....
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
No. Although it is less dense, continental crust is much thicker than oceanic crust.Continental crust is thicker, averaging...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
According to reports in the media 802 people have been killed in the earthquake to date (3rd of March 2010), however a Spanish...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
tectonic plate boundaries
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Yes it can. But it isn't usual (see topographical movments)
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake had an intensity of severe (VIII) on the Modified Mercalli (MM) scale. ...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
velocities
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
According to the USGS as of 31 March 2012 there were an estimated 3,632 earthquakes worldwide and 825 in the United States (not...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains lists and maps of earthquakes around the world. You can see earthquake density and...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
the answer you will have to loook in a book to find i am the only one that can look it up on the internet
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Drilling, Rocks from the mantle, and seismic waves from earthquakes
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
make sure you have a safe place to hide
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
cose it wouldnt to be
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
the Richter scale, Mercalli scale, and Moment Magnitude scale
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
They either grind up against each other or one goes on top of the ither
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Earthquakes are not a seasonal phenomenon and so the time of year has no effect on the occurrence of earthquakes. As such,...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Injury and death to people. Wreckage to the environment and a weaker economy.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
movements of the earth cause the ground alter in position because roads are solid they cannot move with the earthquake so they...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
No. P waves are faster (have a higher velocity) than surface waves. In fact P-waves are the fastest seismic waves and surface...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Earthquaked!
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
they measure earthquake with the seismograph using the richter scale to determine the size of the seismic (shock waves)they can...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
at the ends of the plates other plates can collide or break apart these movment cause the earthquakes
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
the oceanic crust cools when there's a development of the mid-ocean ridge on the oceanic crust cousing the spread and repture of...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Backwards and forwards in the direction of propagation of the wave.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
They have two different things Primary Waves are really cervey and Surface Wave are are so soft.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
First there are body waves, which are seismic waves that travel in the ground, originating from the focus, or the starting point...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
no Earthquakes can not happen at the same time. Unless they happen in a whole diffrent place.(country,state)
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Since Shedinja has Wonder Guard, you could use him! All you have to worry is about Confuse ray though.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Earthquakes most commonly occur along fault lines, or divisions within the Earth's crust. The Earth's crust is divided into giant...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
there are about 5 volcanoes in Texas 1.Pilot knob Austin Texas 2. the Paisano Volcano (fort Davis) 3.Burro Mesa (big bend...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
I seriously doubt it. The earthquake rating would have to be way off the charts.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Answerearth quakes happen near the border of the earth's plates or fault lines no where else.it happens due to causes of the...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Yes, because the plates underneath the Earth's surface is made up and composed of rock that moves apart or moves closer together....
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
None that I've ever heard of.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The risk of earthquakes or seismicity along the Pacific coast of the US is high because this marks the boundary between a number...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Many people have observed their animals, or pets, become very nervous and "on edge" just before an earthquake happens.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Neptune (Poseidon in Greece) was the Roman god of earthquakes and the sea
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
None Chuck Norris Killed them al first.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
the petrographical interaction between them are at different levels therefore occurring in different wave lengths.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The epicentre of an earthquake is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the point within the Earth where the earthquake...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Nevada has the fourth highest number of earthquakes per year after Alaska, California, and Hawaii. They happen in many other...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Most (actually, all :3), are located along faults (long cracks in the earth) or by plate boundaries (where two plates meet) There...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Earthquakes most commonly occur along fault lines, or divisions within the Earth's crust. The Earth's crust is divided into giant...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Area Where Earthquakes and Volcanos Are Common That area is called the Ring of Fire.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
People have studied earthquakes from ancient times - today people who study earthquakes are Geologists specializing as...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
A seismograph
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Seismometer / seismograph
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Richter scale or seismograph
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Well, earthquakes only happen where there is an active fault. For example California is under the San Andreas Fault, a very...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
As magma makes its way to the earth's surface, it travels upward with a lot of force and pressure, which fractures the overlying...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
It is called a P wave or a primary wave, it travels at 4-7 km per second
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Look up Oragami
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Some large earthquakes are preceded by foreshocks
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates. When the plates separate or slide past each other suddenly, it make...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
A seismometer (replacing the outdated term seismograph), but other instruments may also respond to an earthquake. The simplest...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
A shift in the earth's crust to relieve pressure, and therefore release energy, is an earthquake.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Generally, any relative movement of tectonic plates causes earthquakes when there is slippage along the plates' transform fault....
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The hypocenter of an earthquake.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
around plate boundries
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
In September and october
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
A seismologist is a type of geophysicist who specialises in studying earthquakes and how the seismic waves they produce move...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The Moment Magnitude Scale (Mw) was developed by the seismologists Hanks and Kanamori during the 70's and their work was...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
CALIFORNIA! i think...Alaska has 12,000 earthquakes per year, California 10,000. Alaska is the state with the most earthquakes,...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
By clustering steel collumns and beams in the skyscraper's core. By clustering steel collumns and beams in the skyscraper's core.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
A primary affect is what happens during the earthquake and secondary affects are the consquences of the primary effects, for an...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
They form the same way all volcanoes form. See related question below.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Chile, South America On 1960 May 22, a magnitude 9.5, on the Richter scale, earthquake occurred in Chile. It was the largest...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The oldest scale of measurement for earthquakes were in fact intensity rather than magnitude scales with the first being The...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The disadvantages of earthquakes are1. Loss of habitat of both people and animals2. Can cause landslides3. Can cause the...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
We dont feel tectonic plates in England because we are so far away from the plates. As you can see from this picture. The major...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
erosion, tectonic plate shifts, mineral composition, life on the planet.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The US Geological Survey estimate that there are several million earthquakes each year, but the vast majority of these will not...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Transition boundary
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
compression
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
the difference between the arrival of the p-wave and s-wave
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Helping Haiti You can donate any amount of money - whatever you can afford - to a program that helps disaster victims and...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
True((;
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
an s-p interval is the time that it takes for the secondary waves of an earthquake after the primary waves hit.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
it the eye (the ocean blue dot in the middle).
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The insrument that is used for scientist to study earthquakes is a seismogram
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Uh. Ask jon. He's haitian.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Because the Philippine Trench is inside the Pacific Ring of Fire
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Haiti is already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere so the damage of the earthquake will cost the a lot of money that...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
A seismometer.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the global and regional tectonic setting of Haiti? On a global tectonic scale, Haiti is located near the northern...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
