EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS

Question 1

The study of earthquakes and seismic
waves

Answer 1

Seismology

Question 2

They provide explanations on how seismic wave travels

Answer 2

Seismologists

Question 3

Use to record and measure
the seismic waves

Answer 3

Seismograph

Question 4

Used to detect the waves

Answer 4

Seismometer

Question 5

first signal from an earthquake
to arrive, at highest speed

Answer 5

P-Waves

Question 6

Interior of the Earth

Answer 6

Body Waves

Question 7

next wave after the first
shaking of the ground,
moves slower

Answer 7

S-Waves

Question 8

Exterior of the Earth

Answer 8

Surface Waves

Question 9

rolling up the ground
like waves in oceans

Answer 9

Rayleigh Waves

Question 10

shakes the ground only in
a horizontal manner

Answer 10

Love Waves

Question 11

Feeble shaking and violent trembling of
the ground

Answer 11

Earthquake

Question 12

The large-scale motion of seven large plates
and the movements of smaller plates of the
earth’s lithosphere

Answer 12

Tectonic plates

Question 13

above the focus of an
earthquake

Answer 13

epicenter

Question 14

below the earth’s surface where the earthquake
starts

Answer 14

hypocenter

Question 15

Haven of the most volcanic and earthquake-prone places on earth

Answer 15

Pacific Ring of Fire

Question 16

The earth’s surface creates fractures or discontinuity due to a continuous movement of earth’s rock

Answer 16

FAULTS

Question 17

Combination dip-slip and
strike-slip motion

Answer 17

Oblique Fault

Question 18

Sideways motion

Answer 18

Strike-Slip Fault

Question 19

The downward movement on a sloping
fault

Answer 19

Dip-Slip Fault

Question 20

abrupt movement of earth along faults

Answer 20

Tectonic
Earthquake

Question 21

has deep focus that affects the amount
of energy that will be released in the
surface

Answer 21

Plutonic
Earthquake

Question 22

induced by the movement of magma

Answer 22

Volcanic Earthquake

Question 23

comes before a major earthquake

Answer 23

Foreshock

Question 24

comes after a major earthquake

Answer 24

Aftershock