1: What is the name given to an instrument which measures an earthquake's time AND occurrence?
Seismograph
Seismoscope
Seismoscale
Seismoplate

2: The UK is an earthquake-free zone. True or false?
True
False

3: An earthquake of magnitude 5 on the Richter Scale is how many times stronger than a quake measuring 4?
5
10
100
1,000

4: In which US City was there a famous earthquake in 1906?
Boston
New York
San Francisco
Washington

5: An active fault is defined as one which has moved 1 or more times in the past ____ years?
100
1,000
10,000
100,000

6: The point on the Earth directly above the hypocentre of a quake is called?
Boundary
Epicentre
Pinpoint
Richter centre

7: Where was the largest earthquake ever recorded?
Chile
Indonesia
Australia
Mexico

8: What does Green's function measure?
Collateral damage
Ground motion
Size of a shock wave
Location of a hypocentre

9: Which of these are types of earthquake waves?
Alpha and beta
A and D
P and S
AB and O

10: Teleseism is defined as?
Monitoring a quake by visual means
An earthquake that is distant from the recording station
The feeling that an earthquake might happen
The movement of tectonic plates

11: The location of a geophysical instrument used in observations is denoted as what?
Post
Junction
Plant point
Station

12: The 1556 earthquake in China killed an estimated?
100,000
250,000
830,000
1,000,000

13: Which one of these is not a type of earthquake shock?
Aftershock
Foreshock
Mainshock
Supershock

14: An area which is free of seismic activity is known as?
Aseismic
Monoseismic
Seismic
Polyseismic

15: An earthquake denoted as great has a Richter Scale magnitude greater than?
2
4
6
8

16: Which of the following is a surface seismic wave?
Elongated wave
Love wave
Plate wave
Richter wave

17: A series of minor earthquakes is known as what?
Cluster
Microseismicity
Rapid rate quake
Swarm

18: A region along which a crustal plate descends relative to another crustal plate is called?
Boundary area
Plate junction
Subduction zone
Tectonic region

19: Induced seismicity refers to man-made quake effects. True or False?
True
False

20: Which area has the highest major seismic activity?
Northern Europe
Eastern USA
Pacific Rim
UK