Seismic waves are waves of energy that A seismograph is an instrument used to

travel through the Earth's layers, and are a detect and record earthquakes.
result of earthquakes.
The mantle is the mostly-solid bulk of
An earthquake is the shaking of the surface Earth's interior.
of the Earth.
The crust is the outermost solid shell of
Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust a planet.
and uppermost mantle, together referred to
as the lithosphere. A fault is a crack in the Earth's crust.

The epicenter is the point on the Earth's Focus is the location where
surface directly above a hypocenter or the earthquake begins.
focus, the point where an earthquake or an
underground explosion originates.