Ground Shaking Earthquake Quiz
 

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

1. Seismograph
2. False
3. 10
4. San Francisco
5. 10,000
6. Epicentre
7. Chile
8. Ground motion
9. P and S
10. An earthquake that is distant from the recording station
11. Station
12. 830,000
13. Supershock
14. Aseismic
15. 8
16. Love wave
17. Swarm
18. Subduction zone
19. True
20. Pacific Rim