fauvism: an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists
artistic movement: a group of artists who agree on general principles
moment magnitude scale: a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake