Question 1
What movement beneath Earth's surface most commonly triggers sudden ground shaking?
- Tectonic plates
- Ocean currents
- Cloud layers
- River channels
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Tectonic plates
Nature · Earth & Phenomena
Earthquakes trivia quiz
Earthquakes trivia, played live: seven rounds, ten seconds a question. QuizDown has over 120 Earthquakes questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the Earthquakes questions cover
- Aftershocks
- Fault Motion
- Indian Ocean
- Magnitude
- Seismic Waves
- Surface Waves
- Alaska 1964
- Cascadia
- Core Boundary
- Deep Focus
- Intensity Scale
- Intensity Scales
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Question 2
Which scale is commonly used to describe the size of a seismic event?
- Fujita scale
- Richter scale
- Beaufort scale
- Celsius scale
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Richter scale
Question 3
What is the underground point where a seismic rupture begins called?
- Tremor zone
- Fault line
- Hypocenter
- Epicenter
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Hypocenter
In a real match you’d have ten seconds for each, and faster right answers score more.
How a Earthquakes match works
- Seven rounds. The same seven Earthquakes questions for you and your opponent.
- Ten seconds each. A right answer in two seconds scores 20; at the buzzer, 11.
- The last round counts double. It’s never over until it’s over.
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