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geography
earthquakes
Question | Answer |
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What is the strongest point of an earthquake? | Epicenter. |
Where does an earthquake start? | Focus. |
What comes after an earthquake? | Aftershocks. |
What is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake? | A Richter scale |
What was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded? | The 1960 Valdivia earthquake,9.4- 9.6 magnitude. |
How are earthquakes created? | When 2 plates slide of each other they might get stuck for a long while. Once they get unstuck it creates an earthquake. |
Who studies earthquakes? | Seismologists. |