The Restless Earth: Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Question 1

What was the cause of the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 1

The Philippines plate shifting under the Eurasian plate along the Nojima fault line.

Question 2

What was the magnitude of the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 2

7.2 on Richter scale

Question 3

How many people were injured in the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 3

40,000 injured

Question 4

How many people were made homeless during the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 4

300,000 people

Question 5

What were the secondary effects of the Kobe earthquake? (5 things)

Answer 5

A) 2,000,000 without electricity
B) 1,000,000 without water for 10 days
C) fires broke out in wooden structures- infrastructure destroyed
D) damage worth $220 billion

Question 6

What were the immediate responses for the Kobe earthquake? (4 things)

Answer 6

A) searching for survivors
B) treatment
C) essentials like food, water, shelter etc.
 (Provided by 7 eleven)
D) Motorola gave free phone service

Question 7

What were the long term responses to the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 7

A) improvement to infrastructure (rubber foundations etc.)

B) earthquake drills

Question 8

When did the Kobe earthquake happen?

Answer 8

January 1995

Question 9

What was the cause of the Haiti earthquake?

Answer 9

The North American plate sliding past the Caribbean plate. (A conservative plate margin).

Question 10

Where exactly did the earthquake happen?

Answer 10

It’s epicentre was 16 miles off port-au-prince and focus was 5 miles deep.

Question 11

What was the Haiti earthquake’s magnitude?

Answer 11

7 on Richter scale

Question 12

How many people died during the Haiti earthquake?

Answer 12

316,000 killed

Question 13

How many people were homeless during the Haiti earthquake?

Answer 13

1,000,000 people

Question 14

How many people were affected altogether during the Haiti earthquake?

Answer 14

3,000,000 people

Question 15

What were the secondary effects of the Haiti earthquake? (2 things)

Answer 15

A) Hospitals and infrastructure were damaged

B) Economy was shattered

Question 16

What were the immediate responses to the Haiti earthquake? (2 things)

Answer 16

A) food and water provided by international aid

B) treatment provided

Question 17

What are the effects of a supervolcano?

Answer 17

A) 1000km3 of debris (ash)
B) global scale effect
C) ash cloud, pyro clastic flow, death, destruction

Question 18

What are the characteristics of a supervolcano?

Answer 18

A) flat caldera, 60km wide
B) found on magma plumes
C) there is a magma plume hotspot under layer of ice

Question 19

When did Mt St Helens erupt?

Answer 19

May 1980

Question 20

What happened the before the Mt St Helens eruption?

Answer 20

An earthquake, magnitude 5.1 caused a landslide.

Question 21

What happened when Mt St Helens erupted?

Answer 21

A) everything 27km north of the crater was destroyed

B) there was an explosion of ash, rock and glacier ice from the volcano

Question 22

What were the effects of the Mt St Helens eruption?

Answer 22

A) 57 died
B) area inaccessible
C) natural habitats destroyed
D) soil increased in fertility

Question 23

What were the responses to the Mt St Helens eruption?

Answer 23

A) mobilising helicopters to search for survivors
B) emergency treatment
C) ash clearance
D) mask distribution
E) buildings and bridge rebuilt
F) drains attended to, to avoid flooding (ash blockage)
G) forests to be replanted
H) national monument made- $1.4 million

Question 24

How many people died in the Kobe earthquake?

Answer 24

6,434 people