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A fan shaped deposit of sand and gravel at the mouth of a mountain canyon where the stream gradient flattens at main valley floor
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Alluvial Fan
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The total area inundated by the tsunami
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Run-out distance
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A ground depression caused by collapse into an underground cavern
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Sinkhole
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Volcanic dome composed of rhyolite and rhyodacite
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Rhyolite Dome
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Form as sediment is deposited in the slower waters on the inside of the meander bends
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Point bar
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The number peaks per second
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Frequency
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Record local and very strong earthquakes
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Strong-motion Seismograph
Record local and very strong earthquakes Read More »
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A measure of the total energy expended during an earthquake; depends on its seismic moment determined by: rock shear strength, area of rock, average slip distance offset across the
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Moment Magnitude
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A landslide in which the mass rotates as it slides on a basal slip surface
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Rotational Slide
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Blocky basalt lava with a ragged clinkery surface
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Aa Flow
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