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Relatively flat lowland that borders a river usually dry but subject to flooding
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Floodplain
General Knowledge
Water saturated sediment jostled by an earthquake rearrange themselves into a closer packing arragement
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Water saturated sediment jostled by an earthquake rearrange themselves into a closer packing arragement
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Liquefaction
Where the earthquake actually happens in the earth’s crust, where energy is radiating out from all directions
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Where the earthquake actually happens in the earth’s crust, where energy is radiating out from all directions
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Focus
A circular or oval feature resulting from the dissolution of rock
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A circular or oval feature resulting from the dissolution of rock
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Doline
Natural & Human Created Hazard like floods, droughts, wildland fires, weather phenomena, landslides are called
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Natural & Human Created Hazard like floods, droughts, wildland fires, weather phenomena, landslides are called
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Hydrometeorological Hazards
Type of collision forms continent volcanic arc of stratovolcanoes
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Type of collision forms continent volcanic arc of stratovolcanoes
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Ocean-Continent
Indicates the severity of an earthquake in terms of the damage that it inflicts on structures and people
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Indicates the severity of an earthquake in terms of the damage that it inflicts on structures and people
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Intensity Scale
Ice that crystallizes in pores between grains of sediment
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Ice that crystallizes in pores between grains of sediment
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Interstitial Ice
Boundary where plates are moving towards each other
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Boundary where plates are moving towards each other
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Convergent
Developed 1953l based on maximum amplitude of earthquake waves recorded on a Wood Anderson Seismograph
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Developed 1953l based on maximum amplitude of earthquake waves recorded on a Wood Anderson Seismograph
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Richter Magnitude Scale