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Among the government agencies of the Philippines, what particular agency focused on monitoring Earth's crust?
PHIVOLCS
What do you mean by PHIVOLCS
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
The study of earthquakes
Seismology
The one who study earthquakes
seismologists
Major earthquakes are often followed by somewhat smaller events known as?
aftershocks
The spot directly above the focus on the surface of the Earth.
epicenter
Type of fault that has moved in the past and is expected to move again.
active fault
The total amount of energy released measured by the Richter Scale.
magnitude
A break in the Earth’s crust along which significant movement has taken place.
fault
A series of waves caused by earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions.
tsunami
A type of fault wherein rock layers on opposite sides of a fault slide pass each other horizontally.
strike-slip fault
The image shown is a __
normal fault
The area or region where most earthquake and volcanic activities occur.
Pacific Ring of Fire
measures intensity
Mercalli scale
Stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle is what kind of stress?
tension
Squeezing rock until it breaks is what stress?
compression
