Terremoto

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/terremoto

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the mitigation strategies?Includes earthquake-resistant engineering, early warning systems, and land-use planning
2. Why does the Earth shake during a terremoto?The plates move and build up stress along faults; when the stress is too high, the rocks break and release energy as seismic waves, making the ground shake.
3. How do scientists know where an earthquake happened?Scientists listen to seismic waves (P, S, Love, Rayleigh) that travel through the Earth; by measuring them, they can find the earthquake’s location, depth, and size.

Asthenosphere: The highly viscous, mechanically weak and ductile region of the upper mantle of Earth.
Hypocenter (Focus): The point within the Earth where an earthquake rupture starts.
Seismology: The scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth.