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Saturday, September 27, 2008

How do earthquakes take place?


BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How earthquakes happen


The above suggested link from the BBC site can help the readers about the rudimentary geography. Such questions appears in Prelims. They are objective type questions based on the core understanding of the fundamentals.

The readers can learn about the following terms:

Hypocentre

P waves,

S waves,

Epicentre

Surface Waves,

Rayleigh Waves

Love Waves


The readers can also learn about the man default centre or the world plates all over the world. They can also learn about the core structure of the Earth crust. All the terms are well illustrated.




The readers can also learn about Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis from the same site.

They can watch the lesson in flash play or as PDF files or HTML display as per the capabilities of the devices which they are using to access the internet. It is strongly recommended that they should prefer flash display which is more communicative.


Source: Earth crust graphics from BBC News
Terms further links from Wikipedia

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