EQuakes and Faults #2

• Earthquake is associated with fault
• The closer to the epicenter, the stronger shaking of the earthquake that will be felt
• intensity gives us the idea of how strong all week the shaking is it is expressed in Roman numeral
• magnitude is the amount released

  energy list uses Hindu Arabic numeral
• magnitude is a measure of earthquakes size and remains unchanged with distance from earthquake
• intensity is the degree of shaking at a given place and decreases distance from epicenter