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A blossary on different terms relating to earthquakes.

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Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically ...

Domain: Natural environment; Architecture; Category: Earthquake; General architecture

Earthquake prediction "is usually defined as the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of a future earthquake within stated limits", and particularly "the determination of ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of earthquake effects, ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Induced seismicity refers to typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on the Earth's crust. Most induced seismicity is of an ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Sometimes a series of earthquakes occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where the earthquakes strike a fault in clusters, each triggered by the shaking or stress redistribution of the previous ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

Earthquake swarms are sequences of earthquakes striking in a specific area within a short period of time. They are different from earthquakes followed by a series of aftershocks by the fact that no ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space. The designation of an earthquake as foreshock, mainshock or ...

Domain: Natural environment; Category: Earthquake

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