Not My Fault
Type of fault formed from compression
What is a reverse fault
This scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
These are the 3 most basic layers of the Earth
What are the crust, mantle and core?
This earthquake is known for the fires that swept the city (from our lab)
What is San Francisco (1906)
The point below Earth's surface where the earthquake starts
What is the focus?
Tye of fault formed from tension
What is a normal fault?
The magnitude measures this information about an earthquake
What is energy?
This complex layer of the Earth is the tectonic plate
What is the lithosphere?
This earthquake produced a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people
Sumatra OR Indonesia (2004)
A large ocean wave often created by large earthquakes
What is a tsunami?
Type of fault formed from shearing
What is a strike-slip fault?
Each increase in magnitude releases this much more energy
What is 32?
This field of study has taught scientists about the layers of the Earth (Scientific term!)
What is seismology?
The largest earthquake in Alaska (9.2) occurred in this year
What is 1964?
The boundary between the crust and the mantle
What is the Moho?
This is the best example in the world of a strike-slip fault
What is the San Andreas fault?
This is the magnitude of the highest recorded earthquake
What is 9.5?
This layer of Earth generates the magnetic field around Earth
What is the outer core?
This country was prepared for a tsunami when a large earthquake struck in 2011
What is Japan?
The bouncing of seismic wave
What is reflection?
The footwall moves this direction in a normal fault
What is up?
An earthquake with a magnitude 4 has this much more energy than an earthquake of a magnitude 2
What is 322? OR
What is 1,024?
This layer is allows the tectonic plates to move above it
What is the asthenosphere?
This is the name of the nuclear power plant that was damaged in the 2011 Japan earthquake
What is Fukushima?
The bending of seismic waves
What is refraction?