Big Earthquakes Don’t Trigger Other Large Ones
MAY 29, 2012
Local aftershocks may result, but not large faraway ones, study indicates.
Big Earthquakes Don’t Trigger Other Large Ones
Inside Science Buzzwords:
- Earthquake - the sudden release of energy from movement of the Earth’s crust which releases seismic waves.
- Seismic waves - waves of energy that travel through the Earth’s crust and on its surface.
- Seismometer - an instrument that measures seismic waves.
- Seismogram - a record of a seismic wave.
- Earthquake magnitude - expressed by the Richter Magnitude scale (ranging from less than 2.0 to greater than 10.0), a measurement of the energy in an earthquake, obtained by calculating the amplitude (height) of seismic waves on a seismogram.
