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EARTHQUAKES AND
CYCLONES
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EARTHQUAKES
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EARTHQUAKES
• An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, which can be violent enough to destroy major buildings and kill thousands of people. Earthquakes have destroyed whole cities. They result from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
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FOCUS AND EPICENTER• Focus is the place under the
earth’s crust where the plates collide.• Epicenter is the place above
the focus on the earth’s crust.
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FOCUS AND EPICENTER
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SISMIC WAVES
• Seismic waves are waves of energy that travel through the Earth's layers, and are a result of an earthquake, explosion, or a volcano.
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HOW IS EARTHQUAKE MEASURED?
• Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes are reported. Smaller earthquakes are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter magnitude scale.
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SISMOMETER
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How does earthquake occur?
• There are many* plates known as tectonic plates floating above the magma. When these plates collide, the tremors occur.
*The Earth has 14 major tectonic plates and 38 minor tectonic plates
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How earthquake occurs?
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CYCLONES
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CYCLONE• Cyclone is a system of winds
rotating inwards to an area of low pressure , with an Anticlockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation.
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• As warm, moist air over the ocean rises up from the ocean surface, there is less air left near the surface, and this causes an area of lower air pressure below. The air around this region has higher air pressure, and so it rushes in to fill the low pressure area.
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HOW CYCLONE OCCURS?
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JASMEHAK KARN VIII-A R.N.12