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245 months ago

Maria (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

English > Spanish

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

shear disturbances

Context:

....tha damaging ground motion

Keywords:

earthquakes

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

Perturbación de cizallamiento

My comment:

Richter demostró que entre mayor era la energía intrínseca de un terremoto, mayor era la "amplitud" de movimiento del terreno en una distancia dada. El Calibró su escala de magnitud usando la medida de "amplitud" máxima de la onda de cizallamiento (la onda S) en un periodo de 20 segundos, registrando los datos en un sismómetro altamente sensible a este tipo de ondas.

My references:

http://www.acqweather.com/TerremotoTubagua.htm

The asker's comment:

Thanks! Your comment was very useful.