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Turkey Earthquake

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on January 24, 2020 near the city of Elazig. The earthquake caused significant damage, with over 40 buildings collapsing and more than 1,000 people injured. Seismometers are used to measure the strength of earthquakes using the Moment Magnitude Scale, which is the most up-to-date system. Damage is usually worst closest to the epicenter, where the movement occurred deep below the earth's surface at the meeting point of tectonic plates. Large quakes tend to occur at plate boundaries, where the plates are pushing together, pulling apart, or sliding past one another.

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Turkey Earthquake

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on January 24, 2020 near the city of Elazig. The earthquake caused significant damage, with over 40 buildings collapsing and more than 1,000 people injured. Seismometers are used to measure the strength of earthquakes using the Moment Magnitude Scale, which is the most up-to-date system. Damage is usually worst closest to the epicenter, where the movement occurred deep below the earth's surface at the meeting point of tectonic plates. Large quakes tend to occur at plate boundaries, where the plates are pushing together, pulling apart, or sliding past one another.

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Turkey Earthquake, Friday 30th October, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snd5DSiDcFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XqCnQZ4v14

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/25/europe/turkey-earthquake-intl/index.html
Answer the following questions:
1. What is used to measure the strength of earthquakes?
a) Barometer
b) Anemometer
c) Seismometer
2. Where is the focus of an earthquake?
a) The nearest town or city
b) The point within the earth where the movement took place.
c) The point on the surface of the earth directly above where the movement
took place.
3. Which is the most up to date scale for measuring earthquakes?
a) Moment Magnitude Scale
b) Richter Scale
c) Logarithmic Scale
4. Where would the most damage be caused by an earthquake?
a) Close to the epicenter
b) Far away from the epicenter
c) In rural areas
5. Where do large earthquakes usually happens?
a) In the center of plates
b) On the edges of plates
c) In the ocean

Answer the following revision questions:


1. Define the following terms: Plates: Plates are pieces of the earth’s crust.
Plate Tectonics: The slow movement of plates over the earth’s surface.
Plate Boundaries: The edges of plates.
2. Name the three different types of plate boundaries.
Convergent, Divergent and Transform.
3. Explain how plates move at each type of plate boundary.
Convergent plate boundary- Plates move towards each other.
Divergent plate boundary- Plates move away from each other.
Transform plate boundary- Plates slide past each other.
4. Explain the following types of zones that are created by plate movement a)
A Zone of Subduction b) A Collision Zone.
A Zone of Subduction occurs at a convergent plate margin where an oceanic plate
moves under a continental plate.
A Collision Zone occurs at a convergent plate margin where two continental plates
collide with each other, this movement can form Mountain chains.
5. Name activities that occur because of plate movement.
Activities that occur because of plate movement are
Earthquakes
Volcanic activity
Tsunamis
Ocean trench formation
Folding
Faulting

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