Natural environment

Natural environment

Related to any physical feature of the earth's natural environment.

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induced seismicity

Natural environment; Earthquake

Induced seismicity refers to typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on the Earth's crust. Most induced ...

seismology

Natural environment; Earthquake

Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of ...

earthquake prediction

Natural environment; Earthquake

Earthquake prediction "is usually defined as the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of a future earthquake within stated limits", and particularly ...

earthquake engineering

Natural environment; Earthquake

Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to ...

slow earthquake

Natural environment; Earthquake

A slow earthquake is a discontinuous, earthquake-like event that releases energy over a period of hours to months, rather than the seconds to minutes characteristic of a typical ...

tsunami earthquake

Natural environment; Earthquake

A tsunami earthquake is an earthquake that triggers a tsunami of a magnitude that is very much larger than the magnitude of the earthquake as measured by shorter-period seismic ...

aftershock

Natural environment; Earthquake

An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock. If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the ...