Movie Quiz: Ring of Fire

In the Ring of Fire movie, what do the big white trucks do in Tokyo?

Create seismic waves that travel through the crust

How often does Professor d'Alessio feel earthquakes in Tokyo?

Every couple of weeks

What is the effect of the ocean on volcanoes (at least according to one of the scientists in the Ring of Fire film)?

Higher sea levels trigger more eruptions

"Since these are explosive volcanic eruptions, they're eruptions of volcanoes that are part of the Ring of Fire."Explosive eruptions are what we called "BOOM" volcanoes. Why do you think that knowing that they are explosive tells you that the volcanoes likely came from the Ring of Fire>

Most of Earth's subduction zones are around the Ring of Fire

What is the expected impact of a major earthquake on a modern city like Seattle?

Significant. Brick buildings and freeways could collapse. In Japan's modern city of Kobe, thousands of people died in the 1990's from a relatively moderate earthquake.

In Ring of Fire, the narrator claims that an ice core works like a 'time machine.' How does it do that?

The chemical composition changes from layer to layer to tell you about what was in the atmosphere in the past.

The Ring of Fire movie shows a model of a subduction zone fault in a lab in Minnesota. What happens when a megathrust earthquake occurs?

The top plate springs free

What Native American character is symbolic of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest?

Thunderbird

According to the strainmeter measurements in the Pacific Northwest, Herb Dragert discovered that the earth builds up strain over 14-15 months and then

it slowly releases the strain over two weeks (slow slip)