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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–1 The power of Earthquakes Source: AP Photo/Cheng Chieh-Wan

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–2 Collapsed Cypress Freeway Source: Richards/Sipa Press

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–3 Map of Worldwide Earthquakes

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–4 Anatomy of Earthquake

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–5 P Waves

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–6 S Waves

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–7 Two Common Types of Surface Waves

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–8 Functioning of Seismograph

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–9 Locating Earthquakes

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–10 Map of Epicenter, KY, TN

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–11 Landscape Shifting, Wallace Creek Source: John S. Shelton

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–12 Surface Break Across San Bernadino County Source: Ken M. Johns/Photo Researchers, Inc.

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–13 Liquefaction

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–14 Liquefaction, Turnagain Heights (cont’d) Source: Steve McCutcheon/Alaska Pictorial Services

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–15 Elevated Freeway Collapse in Kobe Source: Hosaka Naoto/Gamma Liaison

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–16 Generation of a Tsunami

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–17 Effects of Tsunami on Easter Island Source: Cliff Wassmann

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–18 Beneath the Waves of Kanagawa Source: Art Resource, New York

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–19 Earthquake Effects, San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf District, 1906 Source: JP Owen/Black Star

Earthquake Depth and Plate Tectonic Setting

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–21 Earthquake Depth and Plate Tectonic Setting, Selfos, Iceland (June 200) Source: AP Photo/Morgunbladid, Sverrir Vilhelmsson

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Series of Earthquakes in Denver During the Early 1960’s

Series of Earthquakes in Denver During the Early 1960’s (cont’d)

Map, Seismic Risk

Trenches

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Geology, 10a–27 Trenches Source: California Institute of Technology