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地震！！！

地震 dì zhèn - Earthquake

地震波 dì zhèn bō - Earthquake wave

震中zhèn zhōng - epicenter

震源zhèn yuán - focus

断层duàn céng - fault

断层崖duàn céng yá - fault scarp

地震仪dì zhèn yí - seismograph

Ancient Chinese seismograph. Pretty cool, right? Check it out on the internet, and find out how it works?

断层在哪里？Where is the Fault？

断层崖是什么？ What is a fault scarp？

地震是什么？？？

Richter Magnitudes 地震震级（地震有多大？）

Magnitude	Description	Average earthquake effects	Average frequency of occurrence (estimated)
Less than 2.0	Micro	Microearthquakes, not felt of felt rarely by sensitive people. Recorded by seismographs.	Continual/several million per year
2.0-2.9	Minor	Generally felt by few up to many people. Weak shaking in the felt area.	Over one million per year
3.0-3.9	Minor	Often felt in the area by at least many people, but very rarely causes damage.	Over 100,000 per year
4.0-4.9	Light	Noticeable shaking of indoor items, rattling noises. Many people, or everyone, feel it with slight to strong intensity. Slightly felt outside. Generally causes none to slight damage. Some falling of objects.	10, 000 to 15, 000 per year
5.0-5.9	Moderate	Can cause moderate to major damage to poorly constructed buildings. At most, slight damage to well-designed buildings.	1,000 to 1,500 per year
6.0-6.9	Strong	Can be damaging/destructive in populated areas. Damage to many or all buildings, poorly designed structures incur moderate to severe damage. Death toll between none and more than 25,000.	100 to 150 per year
7.0-7.9	Major	Can cause great damage over larger areas. Damage to all buildings, many to receive moderate to very heavy damage, or collapse partially to completely. Death toll is usually between none to more than 150,000.	10 to 20 per year
8.0-8.9	Great	Can cause major damage across very wide, large areas. Many to all buildings severely damaged or destroyed. Death toll is usually between 50 to more than 500,000.	One per year (rarely none, two or over two per year)
9.0-9.9	Great	Destructive to very devastating in extremely large areas. Many to all buildings severely damaged to completely destroyed, even miles from the epicenter. Ground changes. Death toll usually between 250 and one million.	One per 5 to 50 years
10.0+	Massive/Epic	Heavy, widespread, colossal damage/devastation across enormous areas. Death toll most likely over 100,000 people. Large ground changes. Never recorded.	None ever known