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Weather Wiz Kids is a fun and safe website for kids about all the weather info they need to know. It contains tools for weather education, including weather games, activities, experiments, photos, a glossary and educational teaching materials for the classroom. ... Welcome to Weather Wiz Kids®. ... WEATHER WIZ KIDS® STORE...
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Stress in the earth's outer layer cause a pushing effect against the sides of the fault. Due to this motion, rocks slip or collide against each other releasing energy. This released energy travels in waves through the earth's crust and caus...
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Earthquakes are caused by movement of faults --by the fault breaking and the two sides moving in opposite directions. ... Between earthquakes, energy is stored in the rock as it is in a spring: by elastically deforming (bending) the rock. ... The faults that form here are normal faults.
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www.efn.org/~agrush/introgeo/Lect_9.html
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Depending on how strong they are and where they strike, earthquakes can be some of the worst natural disasters, taking thousands of lives and creating billions of dollars of damage.
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Earthquakes are a form of wave energy that is transferred through bedrock. ... Another consequence of earthquakes is the generation of tsunamis (Figure 10m-11). Tsunamis, or tidal waves, form when an earthquake causes a sudden movement of the seafloor. This movement creates a wave in the water body which radiates outward...
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The map below locates earthquakes around the globe. They are not evenly distributed; the boundaries between the plates grind against each other, ... The subducted crust releases water to form volcanic island chains above, and after a few hundred million years will be heated and recycled back to the spreading centers.
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www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tecton...
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You can help us characterize earthquakes in Nevada and around the world by filling in this form as best you can, even if you did not feel the earthquake. Your responses will help seismologists anticipate the effects of future earthquakes, and hopefully allow the public to become better prepared.
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www.seismo.unr.edu/webinfo/felt.html
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Transform faults are found where plates slide past one another. An example of a transform-fault plate boundary is the San Andreas fault, along the coast of California and northwestern Mexico. Earthquakes at transform faults tend to occur at shallow depths and form fairly straight linear patterns.
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Most earthquakes happen near the boundaries of tectonic plates, both where the ... Seismic energy travels through the crust in the form of waves. There are two basic kinds of seismic waves: body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel outward in all directions, including downward, from the quake's focus -- that is,
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www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html
www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html
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