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Introduction to Earthquake Engineering

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fractures and faults were the actual mechanism of earthquakes and not its results.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

2.

The Elastic Rebound Theory proposed three major stages of Earth's crust movement. Who formulated this theory?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Prof. B. Koto

c)

Harry Fielding Reid

d)

Robert Mallet

3.

A rock mass above an inclined fault, called the hanging wall side, moves up with respect to the footwall side.

a)

Thrust Fault

b)

Normal Fault

c)

Sinistral Fault

d)

Dextral Fault

4.

This phenomenon occurs when movement on a fault deep within the earth breaks through the surface.

a)

Surface Rupture

b)

Earthquake Rupture

c)

Fault Line

d)

Plate Boundary

5.

"The lithosphere, consists of several large and fairly stable solid rocks, is moving horizontally relative to neighboring rocks."

a)

Ring of Fire Theory

b)

Elastic Rebound Theory

c)

Theory of Continental Drift

d)

Theory of Plate Tectonics

6.

A type of plate boundary where plate edges scrape with each other.

a)

Covergent Plate

b)

Transform Fault

c)

Divergent Plate

d)

Oblique-Slip Fault

7.

What do you call a seismic wave that moves the ground from side to side in a horizontal plane but at right angles to the direction of propagation.

a)

P-Waves

b)

S-Waves

c)

Love Waves

d)

Rayleigh Waves

8.

S-Waves travel faster than P-Waves.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

9.

Compressional waves which exert a push-pull force. Its motion is the same as that of a sound wave.

a)

P-Waves

b)

S-Waves

c)

Love Waves

d)

Rayleigh Waves

10.

What do you call the process of locating earthquakes based on the recorded seismic activity on three or more stations?

(a)  

11.

Select the odd one.

a)

Rossi-Forel Scale

b)

Mercalli Scale

c)

Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik Scale

d)

Richter Scale

12.

What is the maximum magnitude of an earthquake ever recorded in history?

(a)  

13.

The PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale was developed based on the Rossi-Forel Scale. What is the maximum possible intensity in PEIS?

(a)  

14.

In the Moment Magnitude Scale, if the measured amplitude of a 2.0 Mw earthquake is 20 mm, what could possibly be the amplitude of a 3.0 Mw earthquake?

a)

200 mm

b)

2,000 mm

c)

640 mm

d)

6,400 mm

15.

It is a qualitative approach in measuring the size and strength of an earthquake.

a)

Intensity

b)

Magnitude

c)

Seismograph

d)

Triangulation