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Exploring Earthquakes: History, Movies, and Myths

This quiz explores the themes of earthquakes through various lenses, including mythology, historical events, and film representations. Test your knowledge on the causes, notable earthquakes, and individuals involved in the movie 'Earthquake'.

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1 In ________, Namazu (鯰) is a giant catfish who causes earthquakes.

2 Who played Royce in the movie Earthquake?

3 What does the following picture show?   The Messina earthquake and tsunami took as many as 200,000 lives on December 28, 1908 in Sicily and Calabria.   Global plate tectonic movement   Damaged infrastructure, one week after the 2007 Peru earthquake

4 Who played Stockle in the movie Earthquake?

5 Who played Jody in the movie Earthquake?

6 Minor earthquakes occur nearly constantly around the world in places like California and ________ in the U.S., as well as in Guatemala.

7 What role did George Kennedy play in the movie Earthquake?

8 [42] ________ of Miletus, who lived from 625-547 (BCE), was the only documented person who believed that earthquakes were caused by tension between the earth and water.

9 Who played Slade in the movie Earthquake?

10 What does the following picture show?   An image from a 1557 book   An image from a 1557 book   Global plate tectonic movement   Fires of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Marian column on which Our Lady stands on Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome originally supported the vault of the Basilica of Constantine at the Roman Forum and was the only one such column to survive the Basilica's destruction in an earthquake.
  • the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years.
  • the 1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km (190 mi).
  • in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains.
  • the Seattle Fault is believed capable of producing an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale.
  • the Sunda megathrust (pictured) was responsible for the great earthquakes of 1797 and 1861.
  • the postponement of the 2000 PBA All-Filipino Cup series between Purefoods TJ Giants and Tanduay Rhum Masters was the first one that was not for a typhoon, earthquake or bomb threat.
  • the people of Scilla spent the night on the beach after the first shock of the 1783 Calabrian earthquakes sequence only to be caught by the tsunami caused by the second.
  • the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar (pictured).
  • the Washington State Capitol has been hit by three major earthquakes since its construction.
  • in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona.
  • in 132 CE, Zhang Heng, a Chinese court astronomer during the Han Dynasty, produced a seismometer with an inverted pendulum that indicated the direction of earthquakes that occurred hundreds of kilometers away.
  • Hebron, now a ghost town in Utah, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902.
  • AltaRock Energy's demonstration project for generating renewable energy through geothermal power may increase the number of earthquakes in California.
  • seismologists use isoseismal maps (example pictured) to help work out the epicenter, focal depth, magnitude and mechanism of an earthquake.
  • Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake.
  • Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless.
  • a 2008 study concluded that the Ramapo Fault in New York has the potential to cause a magnitude 7 earthquake and billions of dollars in damages.
  • during "Boobquake", thousands of women tested a hypothesis that they could start earthquakes by dressing immodestly.
  • although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona.
  • according to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau the earthquakes of Douliu, Meishan, Nantou, Hsinchu-Taichung, Zhongpu, Xinhua, the East Rift Valley, Hengchun, Baihe, and Jiji were the ten deadliest quakes to strike the island in the 20th century.
  • a foreshock before the 1930 Salmas earthquake caused residents of Dilman to sleep outside, probably saving thousands of lives from the actual earthquake.
  • Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki attributed his phobia of earthquakes to the collapse of his family house in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake.
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