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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,

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1 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

2 How Seismographs Work

3 Seismic Waves

4 Locating Earthquakes

5 Locating Earthquakes - Depth

6 Elastic Rebound

7 Strike-Slip Fault – Left Lateral

8 Strike-Slip Fault – Right Lateral

9 Dip-Slip Fault - Normal Hanging wall footwall

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

11 Oblique Slip Faults

12 Subduction zones

13 Waves Travel The Fastest Path

14 Shadow zones

15 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)


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