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Estimation and reduction of loss or damage that will result from earthquakes.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of seismic surface having only horizontal motion transverse to the direction of propagation.
Industry:Natural environment
Steplike linear landform caused by the geologically recent offset of the land surface by a fault.
Industry:Natural environment
A feature in the magnetic field produced by the distribution of magnetized material in the earth.
Industry:Natural environment
A discrete section of a fault, separated by recognizable boundaries that tends to rupture independently.
Industry:Natural environment
The intersection of a fault with the land surface.
Commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent the location of the fault.
Industry:Natural environment
A number that characterizes the size of an earthquake by measuring the motions recorded by a seismograph and correcting for the distance to the epicenter of the earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
A measure of the of the magnitude of an earthquake determined from P waves.
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