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Chapter 1:
    Images: Bhuj, India; Loma Prieta; Alaska, 1964: Alaska, 2002; Chi-Chi, 1999; San Francisco, 1906.

Chapter 2:
    Earthquake epicenter maps: GlobalU.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.

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