Browsing by Subject "Earthquakes"

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    • How do earthquakes cause damage? 

      College of Charleston. Department of Geology and Environmental Science (South Carolina State Library, 2007-10-29)
      Earthquakes cause damage as a result of the different waves that they produce as the earthquake energy moves through and on the Earth.

    • Locating, measuring and predicting earthquakes - how do we do it? 

      College of Charleston. Department of Geology and Environmental Science (South Carolina State Library, 2007-10-29)
      Locating an earthquake is usually done by reading the time that P- and S-waves arrive at a group (three or more) of seismograph stations.

    • South Carolina Wildlife, September-October 1983 

      Information and Public Affairs Division, South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department (1983-10)
      The South Carolina Wildlife Magazines are published by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources who are dedicated to educating citizens on the value, conservation, protection, and restoration of South Carolina's ...

    • What causes earthquakes? 

      South Carolina Geological Survey (South Carolina State Library, 2005)
      This sheet explains how earthquakes occur.

    • What happens during an earthquake? 

      College of Charleston. Department of Geology and Environmental Science (South Carolina State Library, 2007-10-29)
      Earthquakes occur because friction holds the rock masses on either side of the fault together, while plate motion slowly bends and stretches the rock, storing energy much like the energy stored in a stretched rubber ...

    • What is an earthquake? 

      College of Charleston. Department of Geology and Environmental Science (South Carolina State Library, 2007-10-29)
      An earthquake is caused by the release of energy built up in the earth where rocks are sliding past one another.

    • Why are there earthquakes? 

      College of Charleston. Department of Geology and Environmental Science (South Carolina State Library, 2007-10-29)
      Generally earthquakes are found at plate boundaries where two tectonic plates are moving past each other. As they move past each other they sometimes stick, and then release that motion in the form of an earthquake.