Faults Crossword

a force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume.
The stress force that pulls on the crust and thins rock in the middle
The stress force that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks.
Stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions.
faults cuts through rock at an angle, so one block of rock sits over the the fault, while the other block lies under the fault.
Same structure as a normal fault, but the blocks move in the reverse direction.
the rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other sideways, with little up or down motion.
a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level.
the shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
is the area beneath Earth's surface where rock that was under stress begins to break or move.
The point on the surface directly above the focus.
seismic waves that compress and expand the ground like anaccordion.
seismic waves that can vibrate side to side or up and down.
move more slowly than P and S Waves, but they can produce severe ground movements.
an instrument that records and measures an earthquakes's seismic waves.
rates the amount of shaking from an earthquake.
a single number the geologists assign to an earthquake based on the earthquake's size.
earliest magnitude scale.
rates the total energy an earthquake releases.