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How and Why EarthQuakes Occur

How and Why EarthQuakes Occur. Ch 8 Exam Review. Vocab Questions. Fault San Andreas Fault Epicenter Focus Aftershocks Foreshocks. Fault. A fracture in Earth’s crust where movement has occurred

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How and Why EarthQuakes Occur

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  1. How and Why EarthQuakes Occur Ch 8 Exam Review

  2. Vocab Questions • Fault • San Andreas Fault • Epicenter • Focus • Aftershocks • Foreshocks

  3. Fault • A fracture in Earth’s crust where movement has occurred • California’s largest fault, the most studied fault because it caused the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 • Focus- inside Earth the source of the energy release/ the place the EQ starts. Energy radiates in all directions • Epicenter-On the surface directly over the focus

  4. Aftershocks • Occuring after and is smaller than the main or largest quake. The get smaller and less frequent over time . Tsunami- ocean wave caused by under sea earthquakes which cause movement of the ocean floor. May travel across entire oceans

  5. foreshocks • Are earthquakes that occur or happen before a major earthquake. • How do we know that shake was a foreshock? • Only if a major shake comes later can we look back and say,”that must have been a foreshock”

  6. More Vocab • Seismogram- the recording on paper or in a computer that is the record of the seismic waves • Seismograph- the device or machine that records the earthquake or seismic waves

  7. Example of a seismogram

  8. Waves • Body waves- • Surface waves- MOST DESTRUCTIVE • 2 types of Body waves are: P-waves and S-waves • P=primary or 1st waves. They travel faster • Travel through solids and liquids • S=secondary or slower waves. They travel slower. Travel only through solids

  9. Because P-waves travel faster • Than S-waves we can use this to determine how far away an earthquake occurred

  10. P and S waves travel at different speeds, the greater the distance from the source, the greater the distance between arrival times.

  11. Travel time curve is used to • Is used to plot the distance from the epicenter to the seismic recording station • seismograph

  12. Triangulating the epicenter • Using 3 different seismograph stations we can find the epicenter

  13. P-waves are faster and generated by compression or back and forth movement

  14. S-waves are slower. They are generated by the up-down or “shear” movement

  15. Elastic Rebound Theory • Or elastic rebound hypothesis is the term used to explain the whole process of how the earth quakes or makes earthquakes

  16. Scales used to measure EQs • Richter- came 1stmeaseured amplitude of largest wave • Moment Magnitude- Most widely used today by scientists. Measure total energy released • Mercalli- Modified Mercalli Scale. measures only intensity of shaking at a given place. Only used for special needs of agencies or by the general public

  17. Liquifaction • EQ Waves cause wet loose ground to compress, raising water pressure in the soil. and soil looses its strength buildings collapse, pancake

  18. Predictions

  19. Layers of Earth • Lithosphere- crust and upper mantle • Crust • How do we know about the layers inside Earth?

  20. Core • Inner core soild iron and nickle very hot • Solid because of incredible confining pressure • Outer core-liquid iron and nickle • Liquid because of great heat • evide

  21. Continental crust • Granite granitic • Oceanic crust is basalt or basaltic

  22. Evidence of earths layerd structure • Comes from studying earthquake waves

  23. The end

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