1. Shake It Up
What type of plate boundary is most associated with earthquakes?
What is a transform boundary?
The 1906 earthquake that devastated this California city also caused devastating fires.
What is San Francisco?
What instrument is used to record seismic activity?
What is a seismograph?
During an earthquake, what is the safest thing to do if indoors?
What is "drop, cover, and hold on"?
What is the term for smaller earthquakes that occur after a major earthquake?
What are aftershocks?
What is the name of the layer of Earth where tectonic plates float?
What is the lithosphere?
In 2011, this country was struck by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that caused a massive tsunami and nuclear disaster.
What is Japan?
What scale replaced the Richter scale for measuring large earthquakes?
What is the moment magnitude scale (Mw)?
What should you include in an emergency kit for earthquake preparedness?
What are water, non-perishable food, flashlight, batteries, first aid supplies, and medications?
Earthquakes under the ocean can trigger which type of natural disaster?
What are tsunamis?
What type of fault occurs when one block of rock moves upward relative to another?
What is a reverse fault?
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake struck on what significant Christian holiday?
What is All Saints' Day?
A difference of one unit on the Richter scale represents how much more energy release?
What is approximately 32 times?
What type of building design is best at withstanding earthquakes?
What is earthquake-resistant or seismic retrofitted design?
What is "liquefaction," a phenomenon that sometimes occurs during earthquakes?
What is the process where saturated soil loses its strength and behaves like a liquid?
The "Ring of Fire" is a major earthquake zone around which ocean?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The deadliest earthquake in recorded history, killing over 800,000 people, occurred in this country in 1556.
What is China?
What is the term for the point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus?
What is the epicenter?
What is the name of the early warning system that detects seismic waves and alerts people before shaking begins?
What is an earthquake early warning system (such as ShakeAlert in the U.S.)?
After the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the government enacted reforms to improve what?
What are building codes?