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Earthquakes
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....dly satisfying explanation of the majority of can be given in terms of what is called plate tectonics. The basic idea is that the Earth's outermost part also called the lithosphere consists of several large and fairly stable slabs of solid and relatively rigid rock called plates" (Branely 154).
These plates continuo.... Part 2 of Paper
....ill try to and eventually will slip underneath the other. When plates move quickly an earthquake is the result.
Before the availability of instruments capable of a quantitative measure of their magnitude, were classified according to their intensity. In 1931 a
seismologist came up with twelve degrees of intensity ranging from I (felt only by a few) to XII (total damage) this was called a Modified Mercalli scale. However according to Dr. Pignataro "Even with such scales, the subjectivity of t.... |
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