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Landslides that form on gentle slopes as the result of liquefactionof a near-surface layer from ground shaking in an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
The release of strain energy by the abrupt movement of a fault with a resultant earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
A strike-slip fault on which displacement of the block opposite the observer is to the left.
Industry:Natural environment
The position on the earth’s surface above the focus of an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
The probability that a specified level of ground motion or social or economic impact in an area will be exceeded in a specified time.
Industry:Natural environment
The process by which water-saturated unconsolidated sediments subjected to shaking in an earthquake temporarily lose strength and behave like a fluid.
Industry:Natural environment
The potential casualties or economic loss to all or to specific subsets of population or structures from one or more earthquakes in an area.
Industry:Natural environment
The solid outer crust of the earth including the crust and upper mantle.
Industry:Natural environment
A fracture in the earth along which the two sides have been displaced relative to each other.
Industry:Natural environment
