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Surface along which rocks move when they pass their elastic limit and break.
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Vibrations produce when rocks break along the fault.
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Break in rocks caused by tension forces, were rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rocks below the fault surface.
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Break in rocks caused by compressive forces, were rock surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface.
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Break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without much vertical movement. |
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Generated by an earthquake. |
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in an earthquake, the point below Earth’s surface where energy is released in the form of seismic waves.
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