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is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement
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is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle, the rocky inner layer above the core.
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a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations
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is the transport and capture of energy
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a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
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the study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the earth
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the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake
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great size or extent
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an act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed
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tremble or vibrate
