《大地的颤动》（The earth.）.docVIP

《大地的颤动》（The earth.） The earth. Earthquake is a natural phenomenon, is a form of crustal movement. About 5 million earthquakes occur around the world each year, but people can feel less than 10 thousand times, and can cause disaster around only 100 times. A strong earthquake will cause, Mountains fall and the earth splits. house collapses, the train derailed, reservoir collapse...... Bring serious loss to peoples lives and property. The crust is composed of many large and small plates are combined together. These plates are in continuous motion between them, dislocation, extrusion, separation, will generate pressure, when the pressure is accumulated to a certain degree, the fracture occurs in the crust of the weak part will put enormous energy accumulated rapidly released in the form of seismic waves spread to the earth, causing strong fibrillation. There is an earthquake. The origin of the seismic wave source ground source is called, where is the epicenter. Usually focal depth of less than 70 km of the quake is shallow, at a depth of 70 to 300 km is in the earthquake, the depth is greater than 300 km deep earthquakes. The devastating earthquake is generally shallow earthquake, the focal distance near the surface is, the greater the impact on the ground. According to the determination, the focal depth of the earthquake in Wenchuan about 20 kilometers. Magnitude is a measure of the size of the earthquake energy calculation. The magnitude of the standard in use at present in China is the current international Richter scale, is divided into 9 grades. The measured maximum magnitude known as 8.9. The two magnitude difference of only one earthquake, the energy difference can reach up to 30 times. That is to say, Wenchuan earthquake occurred in 8 of the energy is 7 earthquake 30 times, about 1000 times the magnitude 6 earthquake. According to the magnitude of the size is further divided into 5 levels: Ultra microseismic, magnitude is less than 1, only with the instrument ca