Earthquake Subject Sampler

Let's Learn about Earthquakes!

This is what we call a Subject Sampler within a Blog. A Blog is like a "Web Log" Take a minute and answer the following questions and browse around while you learn more about earthquakes! Answer each question on the handout that I gave you at the beginning of class!

1. What was the largest recorded earthquake in the world since 1900?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php


2. What is the epicenter of an earthquake?

http://www.4to40.com/qa/index.asp?id=954&category=science

3. Who were the two baseball teams playing in the World Series on October 17, 1989 when the earthquake hit?

http://www.exploratorium.com/faultline/great/loma1.html


4. What is the most recent earthquake that happened to date?

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ne/



5. What causes an earthquake?

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/earthquake1.htm

6. How much damage did the 1994 Northridge, CA earthquake cause?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/html/sidebar1.html

7. Fact or Fiction: Earthquakes usually happen in the morning?

http://www.fema.gov/kids/eqfact.htm




8. What are 3 things you could do before an Earthquake hits?

http://www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/eq_before.shtm




9. Based on the following map, what two states are at the highest risk for earthquakes!
http://www.fema.gov/kids/eqstate.htm

10. Click on the website below and then click "ARTICLE" hit "Check out these fault animations". Click "strike slip" then click "dip slip". How are they different?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/html/sidebar1.html

11. Stay on this website below for #12-15. What is the first and most well known way to measure the strength of earthquakes?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics/richter.php

12. How did it get it's name?

13. What is this scale based upon?

14. What is liquefaction? Note: You can find the answer below at this different website!!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/faq.php?categoryID=8&faqID=40

15. How many deaths were recorded for the earthquake in Price William Sound, Alaska in 1964?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/

16. Will California eventually fall off into the Ocean? What????? Find the answer and summarize in your own words. Do not copy word for word, please.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/

17. Which states have the smallest number of earthquakes?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?categoryID=11

18. How many kilometers deep do earthquakes occur?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?categoryID=1

19. What are the chances that we have an earthquake in New England? I want a percentage here.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/index.php?regionID=21

20. Go to the "Did you Feel it" page on the lefthand sidebar. Find out when the latest earthquake was. What was the MMI and Magnitude and Location? What was the shaking and damage?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

21. Scroll down and click on the animation: Blind Thrust Fault. What is a blind thrust fault?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/animations/

22. Read the page of "Interesting Earthquake Facts". 4 out of 5 earthquakes take place where?

http://earthquakefacts.net/Interesting-Earthquake-Facts.html

23. Stay on the same website and find the answer to the question: What kills the most people in an earthquake?

24. Where in Haiti did the earthquake take place?

http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/

25. How long has it been since an earthquake of this magnitude struck Haiti?

http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/

26. What kind of fault is Haiti near?

http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/

27. Read the article: EArthquake Shortens Day: How did an earthquake shorten a day?

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57496/title/FOR_KIDS_Earthquake_shortens_the_day

28-30. What are 3 things you can do to earthquake proof your home?

http://www.fema.gov/kids/protect.htm

31. Take the Disaster Math quiz and record your score here.

http://www.fema.gov/kidsApps/quiz_multichoice_questions.do?quiz=math_quake&action=init

32. Play the Beat the Quake Game.

http://www.dropcoverholdon.org/beatthequake/game/

33. Follow the instructions on "Make your own quake".

http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/interactives/makeaquake.html

34. Select a ground type, magnitude and set your own earthquake simulation. Try some different combinations.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html

35. What does NESN stand for ? (Hint: it's not New England Sports Network!!)

http://aki.bc.edu/cgi-bin/NESN/recent_events.pl

36. What was the last town/city in Massachusetts to have an earthquake?

http://aki.bc.edu/cgi-bin/NESN/recent_events.pl

37. Complete the Earthquake crossword puzzle!

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/earthquakes-cw.htm

38. How many miles is the San Andreas Fault?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/kap/

39. Watch the interactive Tsunami Guide. Be patient while loading! Use the website to answer the following questions:

http://www.whoi.edu/home/interactive/tsunami/

40. What was the Tsunami's speed related to in the Intro?

41. What helps to buffer Tsunami waves?

42. What does Tsunami mean in Japanese?

43. When/where was the first recorded Tsunami?

44. If you see receding water what should you do?

45. Name 2 Tsunami warning systems under Research and Technology.

46. What happened today in Earthquake History?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/

47. Play concentration with plate tectonics.

http://www.quia.com/cc/262313.html

48. What is the name for the meeting of 3 tectonic plates;

http://www.iol.ie/~dromore/Classes/earthquakes/question3.htm

49. What is a foreshock?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/

50. Define seismograph:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/

YOU ARE DONE!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!