seismic | | This acts like both a solid and a liquid. |
aftershock | | This mesures vibrations. |
travel time | | The intensity of an earth quake. |
mantle | | The time it takes for a wave train to hit you from its starting point. |
hypocenter | | Just before the earthquake striks you might get this. |
magnitude | | If an earthquake is this than it is far from you. |
seismograph | | This is a kind of scale. |
Richter | | This is related to tremors. |
teleseism | | This is where you think the focus is. |
crust | | This is a giant crack in the earths surface. |
focus | | This is the top layer of the Earth. |
tremor | | This is directly above the focus of an earthquake. |
Benioff Zone | | This is a dipping zone containing earthquake hypocentres lying along the top of a subducting plate. |
epicenter | | Related to epicenter. |
fault | | This is a small ground movment. |
foreshock | | What happens after a big earthquake. |