Level Up
This level earthquake is not felt except under unusual conditions
What is level 1 Earthquake?
The biggest earthquake had this magnitude
What is 9.5 magnitude
In 1991 Mount Pinatubo erupted over how many tons of gas and volcanic ash
What is 20 million
Scientists that study earthquakes are called what?
What is Seismologist.
Hot spots are what?
What are volcanoes not associated with plate boundaries
This level earthquake is felt by nearly everyone. Some dishes and windows break and some walls crack
What is level 5 earthquake.
A primary wave can travel through what?
What is solids and liquids
Lava is what?
What is molten rock that erupts onto earth’s surface.
A fault does what?
What is a break in the earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves past another rock.
What are Cinder cone volcanoes
What is a small steep volcano that erupts gas slick basaltic lavas
This level earthquake is mostly noticeable inside and feels like a moving truck
What is level 3 earthquake.
A secondary wave can travel through what?
What is solids
What erupted in 1980?
What is Mount St. Helens
Where can you find a secondary wave?
What is the Mantle of the earth
A plume describes what?
What is rising currents of hot mantle material
This level earthquake is when few structures remain, railroads are destroyed and broad fissures form in the ground
What is level 11 earthquake.
DOUBLE POINTS
The surface wave is more dangerous why?
What is causes more damage to earths surface.
Magma is what?
What is molten rock below earths surface.
Where can you find a primary wave?
What is the Mantle and Core of the earth.
How is a volcano formed?
What is movement of earth's tectonic plates
This level earthquake is when everybody runs outside to escape and almost everything breaks
What is level 7 earthquake.
Where are most earthquakes recorded?
What is western Brazil.
What are shield volcanoes.
What is gentle slopes made from basalt lava and looks shield shaped.
A magnitude 8 earthquake is how Much stronger than a level 6 earthquake?
What is 996 times stronger
The USGS stands for what?
What is United States Geological Survey