79 Earthquakes Trivia Questions with Answers
79 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the fault line expected to produce a major earthquake near Istanbul?
Answer
North Anatolian Fault
Which nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
Answer
Fukushima Daiichi
Which New Zealand city was devastated by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in 2011?
Answer
Christchurch
What modern scale is now standard for measuring earthquake magnitude?
Answer
Moment magnitude scale
What is the term for a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one?
Answer
Aftershock
What is the name of the fault that runs through most of California?
Answer
San Andreas Fault
Which earthquake in 1975 was successfully predicted, allowing an evacuation that saved thousands?
Answer
1975 Haicheng earthquake
What is the name of the deadliest earthquake in history?
Answer
1556 Shaanxi earthquake
What is the name of the largest earthquake in the United States?
Answer
1964 Alaska earthquake
Which seismic wave is responsible for the rolling motion felt during an earthquake?
Answer
Rayleigh wave
Which fault zone was responsible for the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Answer
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault
What is the name of the largest earthquake ever recorded?
Answer
Great Chilean earthquake
What device is used to detect and record earthquakes?
Answer
Seismograph
In which ocean do most earthquakes occur?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
What scale measures the intensity of earthquake shaking?
Answer
Mercalli scale