Consider the following questions:
1) What are foreshocks?
2) Why do earthquakes occur?
3) What type of equipment is used to record earthquakes?
4) What is the term for the size of an earthquake?
5) What is the difference between a P-wave and an S-wave?
6) Are scientists able to predict earthquakes?
7) Is there earthquake weather or an earthquake season?
8) When and where did the largest earthquake in the United States occur?
9) Is the San Andreas Fault one continuous fault? On average, how much does it move in a year?
10) What are moonquakes?
11) What is a tsunami?
12) What is the difference between a hypocenter and an epicenter?
13) Approximately how many earthquakes occur each year? What U.S. state is the most earthquake prone most earthquakes?
14)Where do the majority of earthquakes occur?
15) What two U.S. states have the least number of earthquakes?
16) According to folklore, what did elephants have to do with earthquakes?
17) What culture associated a dog scratching with earthquakes?
18) Does the Chickasaw-Choctaw legend have a historical connection to an earthquake?
19) According to the USGS map, where have the majority of the earthquakes in the continental U.S. occurred?
20) Which side of the Asian continent has the most earthquakes, the east or the west?
21) Which side of the North and South American continents have the most earth quakes, the east or the west?
22) According to the McFarland article, when and where did a 4.4 (Richter scale) earthquake happen in Arkansas outside of the New Madrid area most recently?
23) According to the McFarland article, do the series of earthquakes from 1982 to the present indicate a fault zone hazardous to the public? Why or why not?
24) What is the Richter scale?
25) What is the difference between the amplitudes of a 6.0 Richter scale earthquake and a 8.0 Richter scale earthquake?
26) What is the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale? What is its range of values? (May want to use the text to answer this.)
Attachment:- Arkansas Earthquakes.rar