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A blossary on different terms relating to earthquakes.

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The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 810 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock. If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the aftershock is redesignated ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

In seismology, the depth of focus refers to the depth at which an earthquake occurs. Earthquakes occurring at a depth of less than 70 km are classified as 'shallow-focus' earthquakes, while ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically ...

Domain: Natural environment; Architecture; Category: Earthquake; General architecture

Earthquake prediction "is usually defined as the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of a future earthquake within stated limits", and particularly "the determination of ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Sometimes a series of earthquakes occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where the earthquakes strike a fault in clusters, each triggered by the shaking or stress redistribution of the previous ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Earthquake swarms are sequences of earthquakes striking in a specific area within a short period of time. They are different from earthquakes followed by a series of aftershocks by the fact that no ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

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