Ultimate Trivia Quiz On World Earthquake

Questions : 12 | Total Attempts: 753 | Recent Updated: 01-Oct-2019
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In general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event, a natural event or an event caused by humans - that produces seismic waves. Earthquakes are often caused by geological faults, large amounts of gas migration, mainly methane deep inside the earth, volcanoes, landslides, and nuclear tests are the main faults. The starting point of the earthquake is called center or hypocenter. The word epicenter means the point just above the ground level. Earthquakes often occur in volcanic regions as well, for two reasons there are tectonic faults and lava movements in volcanoes. Such earthquakes can be an early warning of volcanic eruptions. Many times a series of earthquakes occur in the form of earthquake storms, where earthquakes cause group faults, redistribution of the stress of the former shock in each shock. This is similar to the latter shock but is the trailing part of the blame, these storms occur over a period of several years. So, take this quiz and increase your knowledge about the world earthquake.

Questions Excerpt


1. Which of the following best describes an earthquake?

A. A large cloud that generates rain, hail, and lightning

B. A large storm with very high speed winds

C. A violent shaking of the Earth that occurs when two tectonic plates bump into each other

D. An opening in the Earth's crust where magma erupts to the surface

2. What do scientists call the boundary between two tectonic plates?

A. Vaults

B. Epicenters

C. Faults

D. Crusts

3. What are the smaller earthquakes that occur before a large earthquake called?

A. Foreshocks

B. Faults

C. Waves

D. Aftershocks

4. What are the shock waves caused by an earthquake that travel through the ground called?

A. Electromagnetic waves

B. Seismic waves

C. Microwaves

D. None of above

5. What does the Moment Magnitude Scale measure?

A. The speed of the earthquake

B. The length of the earthquake in time The damage caused by earthquake

C. The size of the earthquake in magnitude

D. All of the above

6. What would you expect to happen from an earthquake that measured 3 on the MMS scale?

A. You wouldn't feel it

B. Slight shaking like a truck driving by

C. Stuff would fall off your shelves

D. None of these

7. What would you expect to happen from an earthquake that measured 9 on the MMS scale?

A. Slight shaking like a truck driving

B. You wouldn't feel it

C. Stuff would fall off your shelves Cracks in the streets and bridges Whole buildings and cities flattened

D. None of above

8. How do you survive an earthquake?

A. Drop

B. Cover

C. Hold On

D. All of above

9. What is the location deep inside the Earth where the earthquake began called?

A. Hypocenter

B. Quake point

C. Epicenter

D. All of above

10. What is the location on the Earth's surface above where the earthquake began called?

A. Quake point

B. Hypocenter

C. Epicenter

D. None of these

11. What US state has the most earthquakes?

A. California

B. Texas

C. Hawaii

D. Alaska

12. The ground-shaking may also cause....

A. Landslides

B. Mudslides

C. Avalanches on steeper hills

D. All of above

 

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