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Plate Tectonics Explained
What is an Earthquake? Facts & Information (tangent)
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Discussion Questions
- What happened after you left BUFS last Monday?
- How much did you discuss it with family and friends afterward?
- Did you hear any interesting 'Quake Stories'?
- Did it affect your work at all?
- What other kinds of natural disasters have you experienced?
- What are your most memorable, scary, and/or funny disaster memories?
- Are there any places that you would not visit for fear of natural disasters?
- Are you prepared for any kind of disaster? How so? Do you have a Survival kit? Go bag?
Fault: A crack in the earth's crust that is caused by sliding plates
Epicenter: Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
Tremors: shaking of the ground that occurs during earthquakes
Aftershocks: smaller quakes produced after a major quake caused by rocks shifting to new positions
Magnitude: Greatness of size, strength, or importance
Converging: coming together
Diverging: tending to move apart in different directions
Seismograph: A device that measures the strength of an earthquake.
Landslide: a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
Fatality: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
Casualty: someone injured or killed in an accident or disaster
Devastation: complete destruction
Drought: A long period of dry weather
Avalanche: great mass of falling snow and ice
Blizzard: A heavy snowstorm with strong winds
Evacuation: Organized, phased, and supervised withdrawal, dispersal, or removal of civilians from dangerous area
Eruption: a sudden outburst or explosion (from a volcano)
Rubble: waste or rough fragments of stone, brick, concrete, etc., especially as the debris from the demolition of buildings.
Debris: scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed.
Turbulence: commotion or wild disorder, on an airplane or in society
