Types of earthquake

This is a list of different types of earthquake.

Earthquakes
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Types
Foreshock Aftershock Blind thrust Doublet Interplate Intraplate Megathrust Remotely triggered Slow Submarine Supershear Tsunami Earthquake swarm
Causes
Fault movement Volcanism Induced seismicity
Characteristics
Epicenter Hypocenter Shadow zone Seismic wave P-wave S-wave
Measurement
Seismic scales Seismometer Earthquake duration magnitude
Prediction
Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction
Other topics
Shear wave splitting Adams–Williamson equation Flinn–Engdahl regions Earthquake engineering Seismite Seismology
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