ISNS 2359 Chapter 4: Volcanoes and Earthquakes Book Notes Chapter 4

• School: UT-Dallas
• Department: Interdisciplinary Studies-Natural Science and Mathematics
• Course: ISNS 2359
• Professor: Prabin Shilpakar

Document Summary

The scientific method was not applied to earthquake descriptions. The lisbon earthquake: portugal (its richest capital city of lisbon), was rich with its explorers brought from the. Libson rocked under the force of closely spaced earthquakes originating offshore in the. Our scientific data and theories allow us to understand phenomena that even the greatest minds of the past could not have glimpsed. The word earthquake is effectively s self-defining term- the earth quakes, the earth shakes, and we feel the vibrations. Earthquakes - caused by volcanic activity, meterorite impacts, undersea landslides, explosions of unclear bombs, and more; Commonly, they are caused by sudden earth movements along faults. Fault - is a fracture, a crack in the earth across which the two sides move to each other. Stresses - build up in near-surface rocks until the stress is so great that the rocks relative fracture and shift along a fault.