Earthquake Information
Seismic Waves
Earthquake Scales
Seismology
Misc.
100
the name for scientists who study earthquakes
What is seismologist?
100
the fastest seismic waves
What are P waves?
100
all earthquake magnitudes fall in between these numbers on the MM and Richter scales
What is 1-10?
100
The name for the instrument that scientists use to study earthquakes
What is the seismograph?
100
name of the line that circles the Pacific ocean where the majority of the world's earthquakes occur
What is the ring of fire?
200
the actual point in the earth where an earthquake occurs
What is the focus?
200
this instrument measures the magnitude and frequency of seismic waves
What is a seismograph?
200
the scale measuring earthquake damage
What is the Mercalli scale?
200
The name for the printout or graph that scientists study
What is a seismogram?
200
underwater earthquakes can trigger these deadly natural disasters
What are tsunamis?
300
the point of an earthquake on the earth's surface
What is the epicenter?
300
true or false...there are four types of seismic waves
What is false?
300
name for the oldest earthquake scale
What is the Richter scale?
300
a flat line on a seismogram tells you what about the location of the seismograph
What is the lack of ground movement?
300
some buildings have this which helps it to withstand earthquakes better
what is a base-isolator?
400
movement of the earth caused by tectonic movement
What is an earthquake?
400
the type of waves that cause the most destruction
What are surface waves?
400
this south american country experienced the strongest recorded earthquake at 9.2
What is Chile?
400
What each scribble line on the seismogram represents
What are seismic waves?
400
this type of fault would be most likely to cause a tsunami
What is a thrust fault?
500
another name for the plate boundaries
What are fault lines?
500
you need this many seismograph stations to find the epicenter of an earthquake
What is three?
500
the Mercalli scale uses these types of numbers
What are Roman numerals
500
the method that seismologists use to determine an earthquake's epicenter...hint: the root word of the answer is an important shape in geometry
What is triangulation?
500
one of the deadliest earthquakes of modern history occurred in this caribbean county in 2011
What is haiti?
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