Faults and Earthquakes Note: you should also have pictures drawn in your notes about where earthquakes occur along other plate boundaries (ie divergent,

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Faults and Earthquakes Note: you should also have pictures drawn in your notes about where earthquakes occur along other plate boundaries (ie divergent, convergent boundaries

How Seismographs Work

Seismic Waves

Locating Earthquakes

Locating Earthquakes - Depth

Elastic Rebound

Strike-Slip Fault – Left Lateral

Strike-Slip Fault – Right Lateral

Dip-Slip Fault - Normal Hanging wall footwall

Dip-Slip Fault - Reverse 3. Faults are classified by the kinds of movement that occur along them Hanging wall Foot wall

Oblique Slip Faults

Subduction zones

Waves Travel The Fastest Path

Shadow zones

tsunamis I will expect you to be able to draw/label this and understand how the tsunami wave changes (in height, speed and wavelength) as it moves from the ocean to the shore. Be sure to understand how the wave is generated (you should have a picture that we drew together in class)