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A broad term used for the process of lessening the impact of earthquakes on society.
Industry:Natural environment
An earthquake that occurs within the interior a tectonic plate.
Industry:Natural environment
The actual or anticipated damage to life and property caused by earthquakes.
Industry:Natural environment
A contour on a map bounding areas of equal intensity for a particular earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
The social and economic consequences of anticipated earthquakes expressed in economic loss or casualties.
Risk may be expressedas the probability that these will equal or exceed specified values in an area during a specified interval of time.
Industry:Natural environment
A condition of hydrostatic equilibrium with the rigid part of the earth's crust floating on a denser and more mobile sublayer.
Thus extensive areas of high topography are underlain by "roots" of relatively low density and the adding or removal of material at the surface causes vertical adjustments to maintain equilibrium.
Industry:Natural environment
The perceptible downward sliding or falling of masses of rock or soil; can include earthflows, debris flows, rock avalanches, and rock falls.
Industry:Natural environment
A nonpermanent deformation in which a solid returns to its original size and shape after an external deforming force is removed.
Industry:Natural environment
Landslides that form on gentle slopes as the result of liquefactionof a near-surface layer from ground shaking in an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
The release of strain energy by the abrupt movement of a fault with a resultant earthquake.
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