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A continuous shaking movement of the ground.
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A type of deformation in which a material behaves like an elastic solid when it is rapidly strained on time scales of seconds to hours, but deforms viscously by plastic flow over long periods of geologic time.
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An earthquake related to volcanic activity.
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The upper surface of an unconfined body of ground water.
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A plot of the displacement produced by a seismic wave as a function of time.
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The distance between two adjacent crests or troughs of a wave.
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A seismic pulse usually consisting of 1½ or 2 cycles.
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A fault in which blocks of rock slip sideways past each other; also known as tear faults, strike-slip faults, or, when especially large, transcurrent faults.
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The time rate of change of velocity of a reference point during an earthquake. Commonly expressed in percentage of gravity.
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The record from an accelerograph showing ground acceleration as a function of time.
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