16.12| Earthquake Module Quiz

After completing all of the assignments in this module, you should be ready to take this module quiz.  You have 1 attempt and 30 minutes.  Like all of your previous quizzes, this assessment is open notes, open books, and open exercises, but NOT open internet, open classmate, open brother or sister.  You are expected to demonstrate academic integrity and answer these questions to the best of YOUR abilities.  

This quiz will assess your understanding of the following of learning objectives: 

• Course SLOs
  • Students can relate tectonic stresses to plate boundaries, geologic structures, crustal deformation, and the building of mountains

• Module SLOs
  • Explain how elastic rebound generates earthquakes
  • Discuss the relationship between earthquakes and plate boundaries
  • Analyze seismogram records to locate earthquake epicenters and calculate the earthquake magnitudes
    
  • Describe a historically impactful earthquake