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It is released directly into the water in the form of waves. If the earthquake is massive enough, the wave is a tsunami. Tsunamis are waves that involve the movement of the entire colum of water from seabed to surface, unlike ordinary wind-formed waves that affect only the first several meters of water below the surface. That is why strong underwater earthquakes and the tsunamis they form can be so dangerous.
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Energy is released in the form of seismic waves during an underwater earthquake. These waves propagate through the Earth's crust and are responsible for the shaking and transient motion associated with the earthquake. The source of this energy release is the sudden release of accumulated strain energy along a fault line beneath the ocean floor.
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What is the difference between a 5.0 earthquake and a 6.0 earthquake?
The earthquake magnitude is a measure of the energy released during an earthquake. The scale is logarithmic, such that a magnitude of 6.0 releases about 32 times more energy than a magnitude 5.0 earthquake, and in turn more than 900 times more energy than a magnitude 4.0 earthquake.
What is the Magnitude of an earthquake and how big was the earthquake in Japan?
The magnitude of an earthquake is a number used to quantify how much energy was released during the earthquake. The earthquake in Japan that occurred on Friday, March 10, 2011, had a moment magnitude of 8.9.
What is the difference in energy released by an 5 earthquake and a 6 earthquake?
Roughly 32 times more energy is released in a Magnitude 6 earthquake than in a Mag.5 quake.
WHAT IS THE PLACE CALLED WHERE STRESS IS RELEASED IN A EARTHQUAKE?
The place in the Earth's crust where stress is released during an earthquake is called the focus or hypocenter. It is the point underground where the rupture of the fault occurs and energy is released in the form of seismic waves. This is the actual source of an earthquake.
Vibrations that move through the ground carrying the energy released during an earthquake are called?
in an earthquake, movement along the fault move and break, releasing energy as________
Energy released during an earthquake creates?
Energy released during an earthquake creates seismic waves.
Magnitude is an earthquake's what?
The magnitude of an earthquake is caluated to measure the amount of energy released during the earthquake.
Amount of energy released during an earthquake?
magnitude
What is the exact location in a fault where energy is released during an earthquake?
epicenter
What are the goals of correlation?
to measure the amount of energy released during an earthquake
How is the energy released by an earthquake released to its moment magnitude?
The moment magnitude uses seismographs plus what physically occurs during an earthquake.
Can you explain how the transfer of energy as seismic waves is related to the frequency and magnitude of earthquake in a region?
They both based on the amount of energy that is released during earthquake
How is energy released during earthquakes travels in seismic waves?
Seismic waves are the forms of energy produced by an earthquake.
How is the energy released by the earthquake related to its moment magnitude?
The moment magnitude uses seismographs plus what physically occurs during an earthquake.
How is an earthquake magnitude scale related to the amounts of energy released by earthquaiew?
The larger the magnitude of the earthquake, the larger the energy to be released by the earthquake.
What does the moment magnitude scale measure?
the moment magnitude scale rates an earthquake by estimating the total energy released during an earthquake
How is the previously stored energy released during an earthquake?
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