Earthquake
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- Push and Pull Waves

- Shake waves



- Where the earthquake begins below ground

- Measures magnitude of earthquake

- More Reliable than Richter Scale

- How strong the earthquake is

- Mountains
- Volcanoes
- Valleys

- Are Earth's Crust
- Float on the mantle


Transform Plate Boundary
- This boundary is where plates are sliding pastone another.
Convergent Plate Boundary
- This boundary is where platescollide with each other creatingmountains.




- Areas where earthquakes occur

- Directly above focus

- Destructive
- Where on plate goes under another
- Constructive
- When two plates float apart
- Collision
- When two plates crush against each other
- Conservative
- When two plates slide past each otger
