Re: Fun Earthquake Quiz


"Charles" <ckraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:15:58 -0800, David Oberman <doberman@etc.>
wrote:

Here's a fun earthquake quiz from Florida International University:

http://www.fiu.edu/~srimal/erthqkqz.htm

Click the correct radial button, & your score will be generated at the
end of the quiz.

I missed two: No. 7 (a simple fact I just didn't know) & No. 8, the
answer to which confuses me because I assumed that, the further you
get from the quake origin, the greater the distance between P & S
waves grows (because P waves travel faster).







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of knowledge; & in like manner two tribes or kindreds of
students in philosophy -- tribes not hostile or alien to
each other, but bound together by mutual services; -- let
there in short be one method for the cultivation, another
for the invention, of knowledge.

-- Bacon, Preface, Novum Organum


I didn't like the answer for nr 1.

I agree. Perhaps the person who wrote the test needs to learn the
difference between stress and strain - the stress buildup happens *before*
an earthquake.
Plus Q8 has two correct options.
cheers
Bill


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