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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the focus of an earthquake

The place with the most damage and/or highest toll of human injury

The spot on the earth's surface directly above where the rock rupture occurs

Where the actual rupture of rock occurs in the subsurface producing the earthquake

Where the seismic energy of the earthquake is concentrated

Where the direct seismic waves combine with the waves reflecting from the earth's core

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which seismic wave type travels the fastest

P

Surface

Rayleigh

Love

S

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which seismic wave type is most damaging

P

Body

S

Love

Raleigh

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these scales is a qualitative measure of seismic shaking

Richter Scale

Logarithmic Scale

California Seismic Magnitude Scale

Moment Magnitude Scale

Mercalli Scale

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do we determine the location of an earthquake

Seismic Reflection

Seismic Refraction

Triangulation

Seismic Absorption

Shake Maps

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An increase of one on the Richter scale is equivalent to an increase in actual ENERGY released of ________?

32

100

10

1

3.2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"When an earthquake occurs in a horst-graben situation, where is seismic shaking greatest?"

in the rigid bedrock of the horsts

in the poorly consolidated sediments of the valleys (grabens)

on the other side of the valley

at the distal edge of the earthquake

at the boundary between the horst and graben (the mountain front)

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