7.3
 8.1
9.2
9.8

2.  The average rate of motion across the San Andreas Fault Zone during the past 3 million years is 56 mm/yr (2 in/yr). This is about the same rate at which your
fingernails grow. Assuming this rate continues, scientists project that Los Angeles and San Francisco will be adjacent to one another in approximately how many years?

1 thousand
1 million
10 million
15 million

3.  The location beneath the earth's surface where the rupture of the fault begins is called the?

hypocenter
 epicenter
intensity
magnitude

4.  The location directly above the hypocenter on the surface of the earth is called the?

magnitude
intensity
epicenter
hypocenter

5.  It is estimated that there are how many detectable earthquakes in the world each year?

30,000
500,000
850,000
1,000,000

6.  Each year the southern California area has about how many earthquakes?

1,000
10,000
100,000
150,000

7. The measure of the shaking created by the earthquake is called?

magnitude
epicenter
hypocenter
intensity

8.  The measured value of the earthquake size is called?

magnitude
epicenter
hypocenter
intensity

9. The San Andreas fault system is more that how miles long?

800
1,000
1,500
2,200

10.  Two states that have the smallest number of earthquakes in the United States are?

Maine and New Hampshire
New York and Pennsylvania
 Michigan and Montana
Florida and North Dakota

11.  The National Earthquake Information Center reports how many earthquakes yearly in the United States?

3,000 to 6,000
6,000 to 9,000
12,000 to 14,000
20,000 to 22,000

12.  The Richter Scale is used to measure the?

magnitude
epicenter
 hypocenter
intensity

13.  The most earthquake prone zone in the world is?

China
Chile
Iraq
Alaska

14.  Some 80 percent of all the planet's earthquakes occur along the rim of the?

Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Great Lakes
Atlantic  Ocean

15.  There is about 1 earthquake every how many seconds?

 5
 10
30
60

16. The first "pendulum seismoscope" to measure the shaking of the ground during an earthquake was developed in?

1651
1751
1851
1951

17.  The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in?

China
Chili
Alaska
Iran

18.  What year did the great San Francisco earthquake occur?

1806
1851
1875
1906

19.  What is the range of the Richter scale?

1 to 10
1 to 100
1 to 1,000
1 to 10,000

20.  Which layer do earthquakes occur in?

Troposphere
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Mesosphere