Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
5 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What four informational things are used to predict earthquakes?
|
Identification of seismic zones, seismic gaps, recurrence intervals, and identification of paleo-seismicity
|
|
|
What two things are associated with seismic zones?
|
distance to active faults, distance to active plate boundaries
|
|
|
An area on which no major earthquake has occurred in a long time
|
seismic gap
|
|
|
Seismic gaps do what two things
|
1. they build up strain
2. They move through fault creep |
|
|
What informational prediction tool uses probability?
|
Recurrence intervals
|
