Plate Boundaries
The layer in earth with a 25 - 100km thickness
What is a crust?
The second measurement created for earthquakes
This natural disaster involves a sudden, violent shaking of the ground caused by the shifting of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
Full name for P-waves and S-waves
What is primary waves and secondary waves?
The Major Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami that killed around 20,000 people
What is the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami?
When two plates slide side by side, usually causing earthquakes
What is transform plate boundaries?
Used on Japan’s beaches to negate the power of tsunamis
What is 4 Toes?
Meaning "harbor wave" in Japanese, this destructive wall of water is most commonly triggered by an underwater earthquake rather than the wind.
What is a tsunami?
What is an epicenter?
The Name and Country of the 9.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the west coast of Aceh
What is the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami?
Two plates moving away from each other
What is divergent plate boundaries?
Strategies China uses to predict earthquakes and send messages to citizens.
What are expensive prediction systems that detect earthquakes and send messages through phones?
These giant tropical storms are called hurricanes in the Atlantic, but take on this name when they form in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.
What is a typhoon?
An effect of a Volcanic Eruption that affected the sky.
What are ash clouds?
The place of a volcanic eruption that affected most of Europe.
What is Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull?
When a denser boundary slide beneath another, usually causing volcanoes
What are convergent boundaries?
To survive tropical cyclones, Bangladesh utilizes thousands of elevated structures that serve as schools when there are no natural disasters
What are multipurpose concrete shelters?
Rapidly melting snowpack or heavy rainfall can trigger "flash" versions of this disaster, which is the most common natural hazard in the United States.
What is a flood?
Following a major earthquake, these smaller tremors cause further damage to already weakened buildings.
What is an aftershock?
The name and country of the River floods caused by heavy rainfall and a subsequent series of dike failures. Often cited as the deadliest natural disaster in recorded history.
What is the 1931 China Floods?
The hottest surface of earth with the temperature of 5,000 - 6,000 celsius
What is the inner core?
A 15 meters high wall to buffer after the 2011 Tohoku disaster in Japan
What are Coastal Megawalls?
This geological phenomenon occurs when acidic groundwater creates a subterranean cavity, leaving the surface with no support.
What is a sinkhole?
The movement of tectonic plates (such as subduction or divergence) cause magma to form and rise to the surface?
What is Plates pulling apart or colliding, melting underground rock into hot magma that rises.
The deadliest earthquake of all time.
What is the Shanxi 1556 Earthquake?