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Junior Cycle Geography: Earthquakes
How often Earthquakes comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Earthquakes, Common Level(6 marks)
Quick ones on Earthquakes.
(a)The point deep underground where an earthquake starts is the?
- Epicentre
- Focus
- Fault line
(b)Which INSTRUMENT records the shaking of an earthquake?
- Barometer
- Richter scale
- Seismograph
(c)Buildings weakened by an earthquake collapse the next day in smaller tremors. These tremors are?
- Aftershocks
- Foreshocks
- Tsunamis
Show the answers
(a) Focus
(b) Seismograph
(c) Aftershocks
Common Level
Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q3A, Q3B, Q3C |
| 2024 | Q1B, Q1C |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Q8C |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Geography topics
- Aerial photographs
- Energy resources
- Life chances of young people
- Migration
- OS map skills
- Rivers
- Rural and urban settlement
- Tourism and transport
- Weather instruments and charts
- Aid to developing countries
- Economic development
- Mass movement
- Plate tectonics and fold mountains
- Population and the DTM
- Primary activities and resources
- Urbanisation and urban change
- Weathering and karst
- Climate
- Climate change
- Coasts
- Glaciation
- Globalisation
- Rock types
- Secondary activities
- Significant weather events
- Soils
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