Direction: Identify the following. Choose your answer from the box below. Write your answer before the
number.
Mercalli
Earthquake
Magnitude
Intensity
Richter
Active
carth Quake 1. It is the sudden movement of Earth's crust at a fault line.
2. It measures the energy being released from the origin of the earthquake.
3. It is determined by the strength of the trembling made by the earthquake at a place,
4. It is a scale that measures the quality of seismic energy released by an earthquake
5. A fault that has moved in the past and it is expected to move again.
6. The Intensity of an earthquake is determined by a
scale.
Answers & Comments
1.earthquake
2.magnitude
3.intensity
4.richter
5.active earthquake
6.mercalli