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All relate to exposure of life and property to earthquake hazards.
Industry:Natural environment
A large mass of rock, sliding or flowing very rapidly under the force of gravity.
Industry:Natural environment
The speed at which a fault rupture propagates along a fault.
Industry:Natural environment
Sand and water ejected from the ground as the result of liquefaction at shallow depths in an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
A steep slope formed by the displacement of the ground surface by movement of a fault or by other geologic process such as a landslide. See fault scarp.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of body wave, slightly slower than a primary wave, that moves rocks vertically or horizontally; they move at 2 miles (3 km) per second.
Industry:Natural environment
Oscillation of the surface of a closed body of water when the surface is disturbed by wind or an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
An orderly approach to quantifying the extent to which a site or a region is exposed to earthquake hazards.
Industry:Natural environment
An elastic wave generated in the earth by an earthquake or explosion.
Industry:Natural environment
