Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Structural Safety
Interior Safety
Famous Disasters/Fault Lines
100
A rock formation that lava spews out of
What is a Volcano
100
A sudden shaking in the ground
What is an earthquake?
100
Steel braces that go diagonally across the outside of a building.
What are cross braces?
100
What you should do with heavy furniture like dressers.
What is fastening things to the wall?
100
Famous fault line that goes through California.
What is the San Andreas Fault Line?
200
The three stages of a volcano
What are active, dormant, and extinct?
200
The area where earthquakes occur.
What are fault lines?
200
Absorb some of the energy from seismic waves.
What are dampers?
200
What you should do with your house.
What is bolting it down to its concrete foundation?
200
The city that was strongly impacted by a 7.8 earthquake in 1906 in California.
What is San Francisco?
300
Magma high in silica
What is an explosive volcano?
300
Represents the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
Devices that firmly tie the floors and ceilings of a building to the walls.
What are tension ties?
300
What you should do with you water heater.
What is strapping it to the wall?
300
A dangerous, but dormant volcano in Naples, Italy.
What is Vesuvius?
400
The place where magma is formed
What is a hot spot?
400
Measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
400
Pads that separate building from its foundation.
What are base isolators?
400
What you should do with your houses frame.
What is using metal connectors on your houses frame?
400
The volcano that occurred in Washington in 1980.
What is Mt. Saint Helens?
500
Parts of the volcano. (at least 3)
What are the vents, side vents, pipes, magma chamber, lava flow, or craters?
500
The place where earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What are fault lines?
500
Water and gas pipes that have flexible joints.
What are flexible pipes?
500
What to consider for your bed.
What is positioning your bed well?
500
The 7.0 earthquake that occurred in 2010 in the Dominican Republic.
What is the Hati Earthquake?
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