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The percentage change in the length, shape, or volume of a body subjected to deformation.
Industry:Natural environment
Force per unit area acting on a surface within a body.
Industry:Natural environment
The difference between the stress across a fault before and after an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
The bearing relative to north of a line defined by the intersection of a planar geologic feature, such as a fault, and a horizontal surface.
Industry:Natural environment
Ground motion of sufficient amplitude to be of interest in evaluating the damage caused by earthquakes or nuclear explosions.
Industry:Natural environment
Features in rocks produced by movement after the rocks were formed.
Industry:Natural environment
A plate tectonic process of one plate descending into the earth below another.
Industry:Natural environment
Displacement of the ground or sea floor surface by a fault movement.
Industry:Natural environment
A seismic vibration from an earthquake that travels at ground level.
Industry:Natural environment
A series of related earthquakes concentrated in location and time with no one earthquake of outstanding size.
Industry:Natural environment
