Question

Consider the following statements and choose the wrong ones. 

1. The World's largest archipelago, Indonesia is prone to seismic activities and dangers associated with it.

2. Indonesia is located on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire", which is an arc of volcanoes and fault lines. 

3. An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 rocked parts of Indonesia's main Java Island on 25 January, 2014. 

(a) 1 and 2 only 

(b) 1 and 3 only 

(c) 2 only 

(d) 3 only

Answer 1

Correct option: (d) 3 only

Explanation:

The earthquake felt in Java, Indonesia, had been measured to be 6.1 on Richter’s scale. It is prone to such tremors due to its location in Pacific Ring of fire. One of the incidents occurred in here in 2004 when a monster temblor off Aceh shores triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.