Earthquakes
Recent Earthquakes in California/Nevada
- Within the last week, which is the closest city to the largest earthquake in the California/Nevada area?
Earthquake Quiz
- If it had occurred on the east coast of the United States, how far would the largest earthquake in history have stretched?
- Which earthquake in the 7.0 range is said to have formed a geyser 25 feet high?
- The three men who invented the first seismograph were of which nationality?
Kids Quake
- What are four other names for earthquakes?
Plate Tectonics Cause Earthquakes
- What type of boundaries usually cause shallow earthquakes?
- Where the Arabian Plate meets the Iranian plate, what mountains are being formed?
Latest Earthquakes
- How big and where is the latest worldwide earthquake?
Earthquakes
- What is the difference and similarity of a focus and epicenter?
- Name and describe the three different seismic waves.
- How much stronger is a size 4 than a size 2 quake measured on the Richter scale?
- What was special about the earthquake which occured on Dec. 16th 1811?