Earthquakes Crossword

Stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions
Rocks on either side of a strike-slip fault, slip past each other, with little up or down motion
Block of rock that lies above an inclined fault
The point on the surface in the middle directly above the focus
The area beneath Earth's surface where rock under stress breaks, causing an Earthquake
Type of stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
A force implied on an rock
A scale that shows a magnitude number based on the size of the waves
Seismic waves that vibrate up and down also side to side
Seismic waves that compress and expand the ground
Block of rock that lies on the underside of an inclined fault
Stress that pulls on the crust, stretching rock so it is thinner
type of wave that moves slower than P and S waves
The hanging wall moves up related to the foot wall
Where seismic waves are measured
Slips downward like the footwall
A systen that measures energy released by an earthquake
Amount of Geologist assigned to a earthquake based on it's size
Shaking that is caused by sudden rock movement along a fault line
Scale used to rate earthquakes according to their intensity, or strength