Unit 33 Review Questions

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. Given the same intensity and type of shaking from an earthquake, which of the following buildings is LEAST likely to suffer damage?

A low-rise building built to strict earthquake codes situated on bedrock correct incorrect

A high-rise building built to moderate earthquake codes situated on bedrock correct incorrect

A low-rise building built to strict earthquake codes situated on sediments correct incorrect

A high-rise building built to strict earthquake codes situated on sediments correct incorrect

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. High population density and poorly constructed buildings led to a very large loss of life in this earthquake, even though its moment magnitude was far smaller than other earthquakes of the last century:

Northern Japan in 2011 correct incorrect

Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1964 correct incorrect

Loma Prieta, California in 1989 correct incorrect

Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010 correct incorrect

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. Where on Earth are earthquakes most frequent?

Circum-Pacific Belt correct incorrect

Mediterranean region correct incorrect

Caribbean correct incorrect

North Atlantic Ocean correct incorrect

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. The strongest earthquakes are most likely to be associated with:

transform plate boundaries correct incorrect

divergent plate boundaries correct incorrect

convergent plate boundaries correct incorrect

intraplate regions correct incorrect

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. What happens to coastal areas near large subduction zone earthquakes?

They suffer far less damage than areas further inland. correct incorrect

They usually are at very low risk for tsunami damage. correct incorrect

They often are permanently uplifted. correct incorrect

They often rapidly subside. correct incorrect

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. A geologist is most likely to find fault breccia at:

the epicenter of an earthquake correct incorrect

a fault trace correct incorrect

where a tsunami has washed ashore correct incorrect

the vicinity of an intraplate earthquake correct incorrect

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. The very strong earthquakes that struck near New Madrid, Missouri in 1811 and 1812 are unusual because they occurred:

in an intraplate region correct incorrect

at a transform plate boundary correct incorrect

at a divergent plate boundary correct incorrect

at a convergent plate boundary correct incorrect