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Earthquake
A shaking or trembling of a portion of the earth.
A pressure wave
in the earth's crust caused by a deep-seated disturbance.
According
to Indian mythology the world
rests on the head of a great elephant, 'Muha-pudma', and when, for the sake of rest, the
huge monster refreshes itself by moving its head, an earthquake is produced. The lamas say
that the earth is placed on the back of a giant frog, and when it moves its limbs or its
head it shakes the earth. Other Eastern myths place the earth on the back of a tortoise.
Greek and
Roman
mythologists ascribe earthquakes to the restlessness of the
giants whom
Jupiter buried under high mountains.
Earthquakes are vibrations produced in
the earth's crust when rocks in which elastic strain has been building up suddenly
rupture, and then rebound. The vibrations can range from barely noticeable to
catastrophically destructive. Six kinds of shock waves are generated in the process. Two
are classified as body waves that is, they travel through the earth's interior
and the other four are surface waves. The waves are further differentiated by the
kinds of motions they impart to rock particles. Primary or compressional waves (P waves)
send particles oscillating back and forth in the same direction as the waves are
traveling, whereas secondary or transverse shear waves (S waves) impart vibrations
perpendicular to their direction of travel. P waves always travel at higher velocities
than S waves, so whenever an earthquake occurs, P waves are the first to arrive and to be
recorded at geophysical research stations worldwide.
Some notable earthquakes: Alexandria
(365 AD); Antioch, Syria (115 and 526 AD); China (1556, 1920, 1927, 1932, 1976); Lisbon
(1755); San Francisco (1906); Tokyo (1923); Northen Iran (1957); Agadir, Morocco (1960);
Alaska (1964); Armenia (1988).
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