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    An earthquake occurs when built-up strain along a fault overcomes friction, causing the edges of the fault to suddenly slip past one another. This releases energy that travels through the earth as seismic waves, causing shaking at the surface. The hypocenter is where slip first begins within the earth, while the epicenter is the point directly above on the surface. Seismographs are instruments that detect and record ground motions from earthquakes, helping scientists understand fault behavior and locate seismic events. Faults can be located at various depths within the crust and come in different orientations that control the type of slip, such as normal, thrust, or strike-slip faults.

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    An earthquake occurs when built-up strain along a fault overcomes friction, causing the edges of the fault to suddenly slip past one another. This releases energy that travels through the earth as seismic waves, causing shaking at the surface. The hypocenter is where slip first begins within the earth, while the epicenter is the point directly above on the surface. Seismographs are instruments that detect and record ground motions from earthquakes, helping scientists understand fault behavior and locate seismic events. Faults can be located at various depths within the crust and come in different orientations that control the type of slip, such as normal, thrust, or strike-slip faults.

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    An earthquake occurs when built-up strain along a fault overcomes friction, causing the edges of the fault to suddenly slip past one another. This releases energy that travels through the earth as seismic waves, causing shaking at the surface. The hypocenter is where slip first begins within the earth, while the epicenter is the point directly above on the surface. Seismographs are instruments that detect and record ground motions from earthquakes, helping scientists understand fault behavior and locate seismic events. Faults can be located at various depths within the crust and come in different orientations that control the type of slip, such as normal, thrust, or strike-slip faults.

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    An earthquake occurs when built-up strain along a fault overcomes friction, causing the edges of the fault to suddenly slip past one another. This releases energy that travels through the earth as seismic waves, causing shaking at the surface. The hypocenter is where slip first begins within the earth, while the epicenter is the point directly above on the surface. Seismographs are instruments that detect and record ground motions from earthquakes, helping scientists understand fault behavior and locate seismic events. Faults can be located at various depths within the crust and come in different orientations that control the type of slip, such as normal, thrust, or strike-slip faults.

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    earthquake occurs on a fault.

    an earthquake or earthquakes is are caused by a sudden where


    of a fault tectonic place are always slowly moving but they grind
    to a house at their edges thanks to friction when the strain on
    the sting overcomes the friction there is an earthquake that
    releases energy waves that travel through the cross and cause
    the shaking the pupil.

    hypocenter
    -is where an earthquake traction is the point within the earth
    -where an earthquake rupture starts.
    -"focus"

    epicenter
    -is the point directly above it at the surface of the earth.

    For the instruments in detecting and reading the earthquake,


    seismograph are instrument to record the motion of the bottom
    during an earthquake, they are installed within the ground
    throughout a planet and operated as a part of asus graphic
    network. The earlist seismoscope was invented by the chinese
    philosopher "Zhang Heng" during 132 A.D.
    this didn't however record earthquakes it only indicated that an
    earthquake was occurring.
    the primary seismograph was developed in 1890. A
    seismograph is securely mounted on to the surface of the
    world in order that when the world shakes the whole unit
    shakes with it apart from the mass on the spring which has
    inertia and remains within the same place because the
    seismograph shakes under the mass the recording device
    on the mass records the relative motion between itself and
    therefore the remainder of the instrument thus recording
    the bottom motion that actuallly this mechanism are not
    any longer manual but instead work by measuring
    electronic changes produced by the motion of the bottom
    with reference to the mass.

    A seismogram is that the recording of the bottom shaking


    at the precise location of the instrument. On a sesimogram
    the horizontal axis is equal to time which is the measured
    or we measured in seconds and therefore the vertical axis
    that is equal to ground spaceman usually measured in
    milimeters. So that when there's no earthquake reading
    there's just a line apart from small wiggles caused by local
    disturbance or noise and therefore the time markers.
    Seismogram are digitally now so there are not anymore
    paper recordings.
    Fault
    -may be a teamzone of gravial sperating blocks on the crust
    when an earthquake occurs on one among this faults the
    rock on one side of the faults slips with reference to the
    opposite.
    -are often centimeters to thousands of kilameters long. The
    fault surface are often vertical, horizontal or some angle to
    the surface of the earth.
    -can extend deep in to the world and should or might not
    extend up to the surface.

    Two types of vertical fault that are recognized;

    Footwall block-is the block which would be under the feet of


    a person standing in a tunnel on the fault plane.
    Hanging Wall block-would be then be hanging over head.

    (normal)Dip-slip fault-in which to block above the fault has


    move downward relative to the block below, this type of
    faulting occurs in response to extension, occurs when the
    hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.

    (thrust)Dip-slip fault- in which the upper block above the


    fault plane moves up an over the lower block,this type of
    faulting is common in areas of compression. When the deep
    angle is shallow are reverse fault is often described as a
    trust fault occurs where the hanging wall moves up or
    eastwest over the footwall.

    Strike-slip faults-a fault which on the two blocks slide pass


    one another. "San Andreas Fault" is an example of a RIGHT
    LATERAL FAULT.

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