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Record both local and distant earthquakes; but cannot accurately measure strong earthquakes in the direct vicinity
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Broadband Seismograph
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Natural Hazards can be separated into _________ and ________ categories.
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Economic Impacts and Environmental Impacts
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A slurry of rock, sand, water flowing downslope; water usually makes up less than half of the flow volume
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Debris Flow
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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
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Ice that crystallizes in pores between grains of sediment
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Interstitial Ice
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Boundary where plates are moving towards each other
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Convergent
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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
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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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General KnowledgeQuestion
A ground depression caused by collapse into an underground cavern
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Sinkhole
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