Earthquakes:)

Question 1

Explain about a case study on earthquakes that you have studied

Answer 1

The Japan 2011 earthquake.
The Japan 2011 earthquake happened on March 11th 2011.
It killed 18,000 peopleand 130,00 buildings were destroyed.
It was 9.1 on the Ritcher scale.
The Pacific and Euroasian plates were involved.
The tectonic process was plate collision the subduction.
Power station was damaged due to 6 metre high tsunami waves travelling at 800km/h
The economic impact cost was 250 billion
450,000 people were displaced
400 billion euro worth if emergency aid was sent out to them from others countries

Question 2

What is used to measure the strength of earthquakes

Answer 2

A seismometer is used

Question 3

Where do most earthquakes happen

Answer 3

About 70% of earthquakes happen if the pacific ring of fire

Question 4

What is the area in the earths crust where the earthquakes is on

Answer 4

Epicentre
Focus
Tremors
Crust
Fault Line