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09/16/2005
Chapter 1:
Images:
Bhuj, India;
Loma Prieta;
Alaska, 1964:
Alaska, 2002;
Chi-Chi, 1999;
San Francisco, 1906.
Chapter 2:
Earthquake epicenter maps:
Global;
U.S.A.;
California;
Chile (to see epicenters in the rest of Chile, click the different regions
on the map, left side of your screen).
Chapter 3:
Fault photos.
Dr.D.'s tour of the San Andreas fault
Chapter 4:
Induced
seismicity (note the 'warning to nonscientists!);
elastic rebound (animation); watching the earth deform (loading the elastic
energy?) in Canada;
in
California.
Our next disaster? San Francisco or the Cascadia
subduction zone? Read
earthquake
scenario.
Chapter 5:
How to read a seismogram;
How to locate an earthquake (I LOVE this one!) start the activity and take
the quiz. If you have a pop-up blocker, hold down Ctrl while clicking.
Use 'Print screen' to capture you certificate and test score, send it to me as a
.jpg (ask if you have not done this before). Feel free to repeat the
activity and test if you do not do well the first time (I scored 100% but if I
hadn't either I shouldn't be teaching this class or the quiz writer made an
error - which he or she did not).
Chapter 6:
Earth's interior;
teleseismic
waves.
Chapter 7:
Plate tectonics;
Greatest earthquake.
Chapter 8:
Earthquake intensity - print out the map and complete the exercise. We
did magnitudes back in Chapter 5.
Horizontal acceleration - the
dominant factor associated with damage due to shaking.
Chapter 9:
Long Valley
caldera;
Yellowstone earthquakes; Tsunami
of 12/26/2004.
Chapter 10:
Chapter 11:
Chapter 12: