This type of stress causes two rocks to slip past one another.
What is shearing?
100
These are the three types of seismic waves.
What are s-waves, p-waves and surface waves?
100
A seismograph does this.
What is records seismic waves?
100
The higher the magnitude of an earthquake, the higher the _______________ caused.
What is damage?
100
These are the things you should do to stay safe during an earthquake.
What are drop, cover and hold?
200
In this kind of fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is a reverse fault?
200
This is the slowest type of wave.
What are surface waves?
200
The scale used for measuring the damage of the earthquake on the ground.
What is the Mercalli scale?
200
This is the area underground where the seismic waves of an earthquake originate.
What is the focus?
200
Where are the places that earthquakes are least likely to happen?
What is far away from plate boundaries?
300
This is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
300
These types of waves cause the most destruction.
What are surface waves?
300
A rating of the earthquake's magnitude based on the size of the earthquake's seismic waves.
What is the Richter scale?
300
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus.
What is the epicenter?
300
Name two out of the four states in the US that have the highest earthquake risk.
What are California, Alaska, Hawaii, or Washington?
400
This is an upward fold in rock.
What is an anticline?
400
What is the order of the arrival times of the different types of waves, from first to last.
What are p-waves, then s-waves, then surface waves.
400
These are three types of scales for measuring earthquakes.
What are Mercalli, Richter and moment magnitude scales?
400
This is caused by displaced water when the sea-floor shifts during an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
400
This is what you should do immediately after an earthquake.
What is stay put because there could be aftershocks?
500
These are the three types of stress.
What are shearing, compression and tension?
500
This is the motion that surface waves make.
What is up and down and side to side?
500
An earthquake's magnitude tells us how much energy was released by the earthquake. Each one point increase in magnitude (from a 6 to a 7) represents the release of roughly _______ times more energy.
What is 32?
500
This is the number of the greatest level of earthquake on the Mercalli scale.
What is XII?
500
These are the kind of damage caused by earthquakes.
What are shaking, liquefaction, tsunamis and aftershocks?