Vocabulary WORDS RELATED TO EARTHQUAKES
Unscramble the words in brackets to fill in the blanks given in the passage below.
An earthquake is caused by a sudden, violent shifting of massive................ (rcosk) called plates under the earth's surface. This movement of the plates releases stress along the geologic............... (tuflas). The............. (nretecpie) is the point on the surface where the earthquake is the strongest. The ............... (ircrteh) scale is used to measure the amount of energy released by the earthquake. Small ................ (etmsror) occur constantly, but every few months a major earthquake occurs somewhere in the world. Scientists are researching ways to ....... (ritpdce) earthquakes.​