In a normal fault, the hanging wall sits (above/below) the fault.

What is created when compression forces bend the rock into an upward fold?

What is the fastest of the seismic waves?

What is located in the rock directly below the epicenter?

What geographic feature crosses Iceland?

What is the rock that lies under the fault called?

What is created when compression forces bend the rock into a downward fold?

What kind of waves make the ground roll like ocean waves?

What is the minimum number of seismagraph stations are needed to find the epicenter?

What kind of fault caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?

What kind of stress force is created by a normal fault?

The collision of 2 plates, Indian and Eurasian Plate, created huge folds which resulted in what mountain range?

P-wave can pass through solids and liquids. Which wave cannot pass through liquids?

What does the Moment Magnitude Scale measure?

What caused the Nepal earthquake?

What kind of stress force is created by a strike-slip fault.

fWhat kind of stress causes fault-block mountains?

Which type of wave compresses and expands the ground like an accordian?

When comparing Moment Magnitudes, for each 1-point increase in magnitude, there is roughly ___ times the energy released?

The Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami caused the meltdown of what kind of facility?

What kind of fault is the San Andreas Fault in California?

What is a large area of flat land uplifted well above sea level called?

What do seismic waves carry?

The Modified Mercalli scale measures the amount of shaking from an earthquake. How are the data collected?

Japan is located on the junction of how many plates?