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Types of Earthquakes
Underwater Volcanoes
Effects of Natural Disasters
Magnitude
Tectonics Misc
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This event is caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?
100
This volcano is close to Oregon and is on the Juan de Fuca plate ridge.
What is Axial Volcano?
100
When the ground is shaking this is happening.
What is an Earthquake?
100
The size of earthquakes are measured in this.
What is Magnitude?
100
Most eruptions and earthquakes happen on or near this.
What is a Fault Line?
200
When two plates slide past each other and create an earthquake.
What is a Transform Earthquake?
200
Underwater volcanoes erupting can cause this.
What is New Seafloor?
200
If there is water in your house following a big wave or waves this happened.
What is a Tsunami?
200
The higher the magnitude the more of this an earthquake is.
What is Destructive?
200
Oregon's costal fault line is this type.
What is a Subduction Zone?
300
This is the type of boundary in California.
What is a Transform boundary?
300
When new seafloor appears it creates a divergent boundary one good example of a divergent boundary is this.
What is the African/South American Fault Line?
300
Many underwater volcanoes are erupting in the South America/Africa fault line this is causing them to be a.
What is Divergent Fault Line?
300
These type of earthquakes often occur need a volcano around the time of an eruption.
What are Low to Mid Magnitude earthquakes?
300
The North American/ Pacific/ Juan de Fuca Triple Junction is.
What is the closest Triple Junction to Oregon?
400
This plate boundary creates the deepest and often disastrous earthquakes.
What is a Subduction Zone?
400
Underwater Volcanoes erupting can cause tsunamis this can also cause this.
What is an Underwater Volcano?
400
This natural disaster causes melted rocks to flow over the ground?
What is an Eruption?
400
This is the only type of earthquake that causes tsunamis.
What is a High Magnitude Earthquake?
400
The plates are pushed across the surface of the earth by the part of the earth.
What is the Mantle?
500
This is the most disastrous type of plate boundary.
What is Triple Junction?
500
Underwater volcanoes erupting caused this chain of islands.
What is Hawaii?
500
The Japanese and Chilean earthquakes followed by tsunamis were on this kind of fault line. This kind of fault line borders western U.S.
What is a Subduction Fault Line?
500
This causes skyscrapers to fall.
What is a 9.0 or higher Earthquake?
500
This was the supercontinent that existed before the planets broke up.
What is Pangea?