Earthquakes

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What is the Focus?
The centre of an Earthquake that occurs below the Epicenter.
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What is a destructive plate boundary?
Where two plates move towards eachother.
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What is the Richter Scale?
A logarithmic scale used for measuring earthquakes.
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What is Prediction?
Attempts to forecast an event (where and when it will happen).
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What is a tsunami?
A special wave often caused by an eartthquake that displaces water above it.
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What is a Caldera?
The depression of a Supervolcano marking the collapsed magma chamber.
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What is a destructive plate boundary?

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Where two plates move towards eachother.

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What is the Richter Scale?

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