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9.5 in Chile
What was the largest earthquake ever recorded?
100
A seismogram
What is the printed graph of an earthquake called?
100
It is defined by the direction in which the blocks on opposite sides of it move.
What is a fault?
100
Earthquakes release these forms of energy that travel in all directions from the focus.
What are seismic waves?
100
The location an earthquake must occur for a tsunami to result.
What is the ocean floor/oceanic crust?
200
A 9.2 Magnitude earthquake in Alaska.
What was the 2nd largest recorded earthquake?
200
The instrument used to track movement in the crust over time.
What is GPS?
200
The type of fault found at a transform boundary.
What is a strike-slip fault?
200
The type of energy stored in the ground as rocks along a fault plane build up stress.
What is elastic energy?
200
The type of boundary where most normal faults occur.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
About 80% of earthquakes occur here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
Stations found all over the world that record earthquakes.
What are seismic stations?
300
The type of faults found at subduction zones such as near Alaska and Japan.
What is a Reverse Fault.
300
The point where elastic energy is first released during an earthquake.
What is the focus?
300
The type of boundary where most reverse faults occur.
What is a convergent boundary?
400
Two reasons why more people may die from an earthquake that has a lower magnitude than one with a higher one.
What is higher population and building structure?
400
Smaller earthquakes that occur after a large one.
What are aftershocks?
400
The most shaking and ground movement occurs at this area above ground.
What is the Epicenter?
400
This was the first magnitude scale developed to measure the energy released by an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
The mathematical amount of increase in ground shaking from a magnitude 4 to 5 earthquake.
What is 10X?
500
The most recent earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami.
What is the Japanese 2011 earthquake/tsunami?
500
A scientist who studies earthquakes.
Who is a seismologist?
500
The point underground along a fault plane where an earthquake begins.
What is the focus?
500
Using the Moment Magnitude scale, how much more energy is released when increasing the magnitude from a 4 to a 5.
What is 32X?
500
The location where a strike-slip fault almost identical to the San Andreas Fault is found.
What is Turkey?
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