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A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move.

• Earthquake

• Focus

• Epicenter

• Volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.

• Focus

• Epicenter

• Tectonic Plate Boundary

• Fault

The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point.

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Fault

• Deformation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The edge between two or more plates.

• Tectonic Plate Boundary

• Fault

• Deformation

• Elastic Rebound

A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another.

• Fault

• Deformation

• Elastic Rebound

• Earthquake

The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust.

• Deformation

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape.

• Elastic Rebound

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A fault that commonly occurs when tension pulls rock apart.

• Normal Fault

• Reverse Fault

• Strike-Slip Fault

A fault that commonly occurs when compression squeezes or shortens rock.

• Reverse Fault

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Normal Fault

A fault that commonly occurs when rock experiences shear stress as sliding past one another.

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Normal Fault

• Reverse Fault