Type of fault in which the hanging wall drops in relation to the foot wall.
What is a normal fault?
100
the first seismic waves to arrive at a tracking station.
What are p waves?
100
An earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake in the same area.
What is an aftershock?
100
More people died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake than anyother US earthquake. Death and destruction were mostly due to this side effect of earthquakes.
What is fire?
100
A 7.0 earthquake struck this poverty stricken island in 2010, killing more than 300,000 people. There has not been a lot of rebuilding yet.
What is Haiti?
200
A stress produced by divergent plates which stretches the crust and rock.
What is tension?
200
The final waves formed by an earthquake causing the ground to roll.
What are surface waves?
200
Displaced water put into motion by an earthquake, landslide or meteor.
What is a tsunami?
200
More tsunamis are experienced in this ocean that the other 3.
What is the Pacific?
200
an 8.9 earthquake struck this island country in 2011 spawning a tsunami which destroyed their nuclear reactors.
What is Japan?
300
Type of stress exerted on the rock at the San Andreas Fault.
What is shearing?
300
The measurement scale used by most geophysicists today when measuring earthquakes.
What is the Moment Magnitude Scale?
300
Caused when the shaking of the earth is so strong that solid soil becomes liquid mud.
What is liquefaction?
300
According to the video, an earthquake along a deep fault line can cause a ____ leading to a tsunami.
What is a landslide?
300
In 2011 there was an unexpected earthquake close to eastern Virginia which damaged this national monument.
What is the Washington Memorial?
400
Type of fault where the hanging wall slides up in relation to the foot wall.
What is a reverse fault?
400
Moving from one magnitude number to the next actually increases the strength of the earthquake by this much.
What is ten times
400
A proven method to make buildings safer in earthquake prone areas.
What are; rubber pads on which a building rests
bolt moveables to the studs
no high rise buildings
stabilize buildings with X or triangular bracing
400
A scientist who studies earthquakes.
What is a geophysicist, or a seismologist, or a geologist?
400
This new method of removing shale oil from between rock layers deep down is being blamed for earthquakes in North Dakota and Minnesota?
What is fracking?
500
Type of stress illustrated in the video yesterday which makes the rock jolt up and causes a tsunami.
What is compression?
500
Point on the surface of the earth located by the overlap of three circles indicating the arrival times of p and s waves at different cities.
What is the epicenter?
500
The best way to protect yourself during an earthquake.
What is drop, cover and hold?
500
it is the fault closest to Ohio which caused a major earthquake in 1811/1812.
What is The New Madrid Fault?
500
We can accurately predict tsunamis in the Pacific but we can't predict...