April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs Disasters of Historic Proportion The Solid Earth Quiz 36 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Science Quizzes Related Questions Why is an earthquake dangerous? What are earthquake waves? How is earthquake magnitude measured?
Britannica Quiz Disasters of Historic Proportion The Himalayan region is one of the most seismically active in the world, but large earthquakes have occurred there infrequently. Before the 2015 temblor, the most recent large earthquake (that is, magnitude 6.0 or above) took place in 1988. That ...
Quizzes April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs Disasters of Historic Proportion The Solid Earth Quiz 36 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Science Quizzes Related Questions Why is an earthquake dangerous? What are earthquake waves?
Britannica Quiz April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs Natural forces Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of energy within some limited region of the rocks of the Earth. The energy can be released by elastic strain, gravity, chemical reactions, or even the motion of massive bodies...
36 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Science Quizzes Natural forces Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release ofenergywithin some limited region of the rocks of theEarth. The energy can be released byelastic strain, gravity, chemical reactions, or even the motion of massive bodies. Of...
usually when masses of rock straining against one another suddenly fracture and “slip.” Earthquakes occur most often along geologicfaults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another. The majorfaultlines of the world are located at thefringesof the huge tectonic plates that ...
Britannica Quiz Disasters of Historic Proportion Sichuan earthquake damageHeavy rains, rock falls, and mud covered roads hindered rescue and recovery operations after the Sichuan earthquake.(more) China’s government quicklydeployed130,000 soldiers and other relief workers to the stricken area, but the...
Quizzes April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs Disasters of Historic Proportion The Solid Earth Quiz 36 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Science Quizzes Related Questions Why is an earthquake dangerous? What are earthquake waves?
Britannica Quiz Disasters of Historic Proportion In the aftermath of the Kōbe disaster, roads, bridges, and buildings werereinforcedagainst another earthquake, and the national government revised its disaster response policies (its response to the 2004 quake inNiigataprefecture was much faster and more...
Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. The death toll from the temblor was estimated to have exceeded 140,000. More than half of the brick buildings and one-tenth of the reinforced...