GeoJeopardy! Fridays #54

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because I am still enjoying my time away. Remember the answers to this week and lasts won't be posted until ~July 16th.

- Earthquakes -

This well-known fault is considered the main boundary between the North American & Pacific plates

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The biggest quake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5, occurred in 1960 off this South American nation's west coast

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S, or secondary, seismic waves travel fairly slowly, but these waves deep in the earth exceed 25,000 mph

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The USA's most powerful quake occurred in 1964 in Alaska on this Christian holiday also associated with a quake

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A 2005 quake beneath Lake Tanganyika on this 3,500-mile-long "Great" African fault was felt 600 mi. away in Nairobi

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All the answers as well as any other previous GeoJeopardy! questions can be found over at my website by clicking the link.  (Remember the answers won't be posted until ~July 16th)

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