Anne Marie Levesque Session 4 EQ ScrSht

This post was editted by Anne Marie Levesque on May, 2008
1. This world map depicts the siq big earthquakes since 2150 B.C. to 2008, with the recent EQs in China depicted in yellow stars and the devasting one in a red star. One can see the teutonic fault lines and how the earthquakes concentrate along those lines of converging plates. I also queried for those eq's since 2000 that have been a magnitude of 7 or higher and then set bounds on those EQs of 100 miles.

2. The GIS data are I am interested in having my students investigate would be those concerning the fault line along the California coast and the major earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater in 1811 & 1812 in the Missiouri, Kentuckey, Tennessee area and the 2007/2008 data with the earthquake situated between Indiana and Illinois and their relationship to the world map of EQ data along the world fault lines.

3. The GIS analysis techniques I am considering using with students would be using the queries, boundaries, color coding, shape tools, zoom in/out, data gathering or whatever else the Science teachers would find helpful in manipulating the EQ data for the 8th grade curriculum.