Earthquakes

Which feature is created by all 3 types of plate boundaries.

• Earthquakes

• Mountains

• Subduction Zones

• Volcanoes

What type of fault is the San Andreas in California?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Optimus Prime

• Divergent

What is the measure of the amount of ground shaking during an earthquake?

• Intensity

• Epicenter

• Magnitude

• Seismogram

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?

• Mercalli Intensity Scale

• Richter Magnitude Scale

• Seismogram Shakey Scale

• Bernoulli Scale

Which seismic wave travels the fastest, always being the first detected by seismic stations?

• P waves

• S waves

• Surface waves

• Tsunami waves

The most destructive type of wave is a 

• P-wave
• S-wave
• Surface wave
• transverse wave

How does the Richter Magnitude Scale calculate its measurements?

• Eyewitnesses

• Amount of damage caused

• The amount of time the earthquake lasted

• The strength of the seismic waves recorded by a seismograph machine.

All of the following are reasons some buildings are damaged more than others during an earthquake EXCEPT....

• The strength of the building materials.

• How close the building was to the earthquake's epicenter.

• What type of soil the building sat on.

• The people living inside of the building.

• The design of the building.

What does a seismograph measure?

• The amount of oil and gas underground.

• The amount of damage an earthquake causes.

• The temperature of the earth's core.

• The amount of shaking of the crust.

How does triangulation show the location of the epicenter of an earthquake?

• By scientist looking around to see where the most damage was created.

• By making triangles on a map.

• By calculating the difference between the P and S waves in arrival times and determining the distances from at least 3 seismic stations.

• By drawing 3 or more random sized circles on a map to see where they intersect.