| seismic | | This acts like both a solid and a liquid. |
| aftershock | | This mesures vibrations. |
| travel time | | The intensity of an earth quake. |
| mantle | | The time it takes for a wave train to hit you from its starting point. |
| hypocenter | | Just before the earthquake striks you might get this. |
| magnitude | | If an earthquake is this than it is far from you. |
| seismograph | | This is a kind of scale. |
| Richter | | This is related to tremors. |
| teleseism | | This is where you think the focus is. |
| crust | | This is a giant crack in the earths surface. |
| focus | | This is the top layer of the Earth. |
| tremor | | This is directly above the focus of an earthquake. |
| Benioff Zone | | This is a dipping zone containing earthquake hypocentres lying along the top of a subducting plate. |
| epicenter | | Related to epicenter. |
| fault | | This is a small ground movment. |
| foreshock | | What happens after a big earthquake. |