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1
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The runny type of lava is called

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Basalt

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When land acts like a liquid due to seismic shaking

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liquefaction`

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The type of plate margin where two plates slide past another

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Conservative

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4
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The date of the Kobe earthquake

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17 Jan 1995

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5
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The thick type of lava is called

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Andersite

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The bay area of Kobe

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Osaka Bay

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The name given to sinking of oceanic plates into the mantle

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subduction

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A deep depression created by supervolcanic eruption

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Caldera

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The denser of the two plates

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Oceanic

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The capital of Haiti

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Port au prince

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The state that Mt St Helens is located

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Washington

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The point on the Earth where earthquake waves are at their most powerful

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Epicentre

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The name given to protecting buildings by constructing an exo skeleton

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retroengineering

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The name of the building in Kobe that is protected in this way

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Osaka Bay Tower

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The scale that measures damage caused by earthquakes

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Mercalli

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The secondary threat created when extensive ash mixes with water

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Lahars

17
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The date of Haiti earthquake

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13 Jan 2010

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The name of the bridge/motorway in Kobe that collapsed in the quake

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Hanshin Expressway

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The name of the scale that measures the magnitude of seismic waves

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Richter

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The name of the power plant that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami hit

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Fukushima

21
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The weight of the roofs that pancaked in the Kobe outer suburbs

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2 tonnes

22
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A flat, gentle sided volcano

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Shield

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The name of the plug in the top of a volcano that causes pressure to build

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Lava dome.

24
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The date of Mt St Helens eruption

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18 May 1980

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The type of plate margin that you find composite volcanoes

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Destructive

26
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The first type of wave to be released from the focus

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P waves

27
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The bus driver driving on the Hanshin expressway in Kobe

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Fukumoto

28
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How many people werekilled by Mt St Helens eruption

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57

29
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Measures how much sulphur dioxide is released from vents in the earth

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COSPEC

30
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How many gas marks were handed out after the eruption of Mt St Helens?

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2 million

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