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☞ What is an "earthquake"?
☞ What causes earthquakes?
☞ How do earthquakes cause damage?
☞ Does the earth open up during an earthquake?
☞ Where do earthquakes occur?
☞ What is the relationship between volcanoes and earthquakes?
☞ Will more shocks be felt after a strong earthquake?
☞ Can earthquakes be predicted?
☞ Does a small earthquake mean that a larger earthquake is coming?
☞ What is the "magnitude" of an earthquake?
Answer:
1.Which of the following best describes an earthquake?
Answer:- A violent shaking of the Earth that occurs when two tectonic plates bump into each other
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2.What do scientists call the boundary between two tectonic plates?
Answer:-Faults
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3.What are the smaller earthquakes that occur before a large earthquake called?
Answer:-Foreshocks
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4. What are the shock waves caused by an earthquake that travel through the ground called?
Answer:-Seismic waves
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5.What does the Moment Magnitude Scale measure?
Answer:-The size of the earthquake in magnitude
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6.What would you expect to occur from an earthquake that measured 3 on the MMS scale?
Answer:-You wouldn't feel it
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7.What would you expect to occur from an earthquake that measured 9 on the MMS scale?
Answer:-Whole buildings and cities flattened
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8.What is the location deep inside the Earth were the earthquake began called?
Answer:-Hypocenter
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9.What is the location on the Earth's surface above where the earthquake began called?
Answer:-Epicenter
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10.What US state has the most earthquakes?
Answer:-Alaska
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