Faults and Earthquake 1
The type of fault when the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is a reverse fault
The rating that shows how much the area was damaged and shaken by the earthquake.
What is intensity rating?
The information of an earthquake that talks about the strength of the seismic wave?
What is Magnitude?
The reservoir of this gas is in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The term given when air is moving vertically.
What is air current?
The type of stress that pulls rocks away from each other.
What is a tensional stress?
The intensity rating adapted by PHIVOLCS.
What is PEIS?
The category of earthquake that gives more destructive waves?
What is shallow focus earthquake?
The electromagnetic radiation from the sun reaches the earth through this energy transfer.
What is radiation?
The season of wind in the Philippines that occurs in October to April.
What is Amihan?
The point where the breaking of rocks first started.
What is a hypocenter? What is a focus?
The component of a disaster that pertains to the extent harm to which the infrastructure, a person or a community might experience.
The impact of earthquake when the soil turns loose?
What is liquefaction?
The layer of the atmosphere where ISS is found.
What is thermosphere?
The region of low air pressure that lies between the 5 degrees north and south hemisphere.
What is ITCZ?
The waves generated by sudden shaking or landslide underwater.
What are tsunamis?
The extent to which the infrastructure, person or a community is prone to an identified hazard.
What is Exposure?
The precautionary measures used to mitigate impacts of disasters or emergencies.
The layer of the atmosphere where asteroids are burned up.
What is mesosphere?
The acronym of PHIVOLCS.
What is Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology?
The plate interaction in the Philippine Archipelago.
What is the Philippine mobile belt?
The fault that is considered as the most hazardous for the country's capital is located there.
What is Marikina valley fault system?
The secondary exit routes that will be used in case of emergencies.
What are fire exits?
The season when daylight is equal to the nighttime.
What is equinox?
The acronym is PEIS.