READING QUESTIONS "THE REALLY BIG ONE" - Earthquake Hazard in the Pacific Northwest New Yorker magazine - Kathryn Shulz 1. How did the attendees at a Seismology Meeting in Japan know the 2011 earthquake they felt at the conference was close to a 9.0 on the Richter scale at the time they felt their building shake? ________________________________________________________

a) Visual cues
b) Seismometer readings
c) Sound vibrations
d) Intensity of shaking