Fires Liquefaction Tsunamis Ground Ruptures Lanslides
100
What is water
During the 1994 Northridge earthquake, places had what flowing down the streets due to fires?
100
What is liquefaction
what is an affect by earthquakes which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced.
100
What are tidal waves
Tsunamis are popularly––and incorrectly––known as this phrase.
100
What is a ground rupture
what happens when the earthquake moves along a fault and actually breaks the Earth's surface?
100
What is a landslide
The movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earthdown a slope is known as what?
200
What are fires
Land liquefaction and ground ruptures can quickly crack natural gas and water mains, leading to the outbreak of what?
200
What is a landslide
During the Alaska earthquake of 1964, the liquefaction of a sandy layer of soft clay beneath Turnagain Heights, a suburb of Anchorage, caused what?
200
What is 700 km/hr
Tsunami speeds in the deep ocean have been measured at more than this speed, comparable to some jet planes,
200
What is 23
1906 earthquake, fences near Pt. Reyes were offset by as much as how many feet?
200
What are rockslides, rockfall, and downhill creep
What is one of the many different types of landslides?
300
What is 70,000
Nearly 100,000 people died in Japan's Kanto earthquake in 1923. How many people died due to the outbreak of fire?
300
What are earthquakes
Liquefaction has been responsible for tremendous amounts of damage in what?
300
What is the Pacific Ocean basin
A big hazard of tsunamis are particularly hazardous in what place?
300
What are humans
Ground Rupture cause problems for who?
300
What are earthquakes
What are landslides caused by?






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