EQ Engineering and Prevention
Types of Volcanoes
Seismic Waves
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Damage and destruction caused by EQ
100
What are flexible pipes used for?
What is preventing water and fire damage and pipe breakage.
100
What kind of volcanoes are found in Hawaii?
What are shield volcanoes?
100
Which type of seismic wave causes the most destruction?
What is a L wave.
100
Where is the epicenter located?
What is above the focus on the surface.
100
What are two damages caused by earthquakes?
What is Tsunamis Landslides Fires Broken utility pipes Ground subsidence Sink holes
200
What is placed between floors in a building with multiple stories?
What is cross braces.
200
What is a simple volcano built from blobs of lava ejected from a single vent?
What is cinder cone volcano.
200
What is the orgin of the earthquake?
What is the focus.
200
______ and _________ are both created by volcanoes.
What is calderas and craters.
200
How are fires started in an earthquake?
From breakage of electrical wires and pipes.
300
What are shock absorbers?
What is a base isolator.
300
What three things are stratovolcanoes made of?
What are layers of lava, ash, and volcanic debris.
300
Which seismic wave travels the fastest?
What is a P wave.
300
______ scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake and ______ scale measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is Richter scale and mercalli scale.
300
What do you call small quakes that occur before a major earthquake?
What is foreshocks.
400
What is a damper?
What is weight in the roof.
400
Describe a dome volcano.
Dome volcanoes have steep sides, they are usually a smaller volcano.
400
What are secondary waves?
Earthquake waves that can travel through solids only.
400
What are the four types of lava.
What is Aa, Pahoehoe, pillow, and blocky lava.
400
Aftershocks support what theory?
What is the elastic rebound theory.
500
What are active tendons?
What is sensors that tells computer to shift a counter weight to balance buildings?
500
What is a large depression created by the collapse of a volcano?
What is a caldera.
500
Which wave travels through solids, liquids, and gasses?
What is a primary wave.
500
Where is the hot spot in the Hawaiian islands located?
What is the youngest island.
500
What magnitude is conside a major earthquake?
What is magnititude seven through ten.
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