Earthquakes

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What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

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Seismograph

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What causes earthquakes?

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The movement of plate tectonics

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What is the scale used to measure the strength or intensity of earthquakes? Options: Fujita scale, Richter scale, Damage scale, NASA scale

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Richter scale

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The Richter scale using a logarithmic scale means...

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Each interval increase is 10 times greater

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Where do many earthquakes happen?

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Tectonic Plates boundaries

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The place on the Earth's surface, above the origin of the earthquake.

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Epicenter

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What scale determines the amount of damage an earthquake causes?

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Mercalli scale

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Which wave can travel through solids only? Options: P - Primary, S - Secondary, Surface

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S - Secondary

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What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

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Magnitude

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The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

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Hypocenter (focus)