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Alaska Earthquake Hazard Inventory & Mitigation Planning
Bonnie Magura (Portland Public Schools), CEETEP (Cascadia EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program), and ANGLE Project
In this two-part activity, students/participants first: - Complete a Hazard Inventory for their city or area of interest in the event of a magnitude 7 or larger earthquake and tsunami. - Identify what critical structures and infrastructure will be affected. Then: - Write a summary statement assessing strengths and vulnerabilities of essential services or infrastructure. - Propose actions for mitigating vulnerabilities. - Create an Action Plan to address identified needs.

Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project
Grade Level: General Public, Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Subject: Natural Hazards:Subsidence, Tsunami, Natural Hazards, Policy, Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Mitigation and Preparedness, Geoscience, Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Special Interest: Hazards
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Alaska Earthquakes & Tsunami Presentation
Robert Butler (ANGLE Project)
This lecture and associated animations delve in more deeply to the topic of Alaskan earthquakes and tsunami along with their causes and variability. It also draws on EarthScope GPS and seismic data to show how we can study earth processes to better understand Alaskan geohazards. It highlights case study sites of Whittier and Seward during the 1964 Alaska Mag 9.2 earthquake to show how differences in location, topography, and land use can lead to different tsunami experiences in different communities. give a good introduction to tsunami produced by earthquakes and landslides. It includes information on how they are generated and why there can be great variability between tsunami characteristics--even for earthquakes of similar size. The lecture describes tsunami generated by the in particular depth.

Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Lecture
Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), General Public
Subject: Natural Hazards:Tsunami, Mass Wasting, Natural Hazards, Seismology, Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Tectonics, Geoscience, Geodesy
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Data: Geophysics Data:GPS/GNSS, Data:GPS/GNSS, Seismic
Special Interest: Quantitative, Hazards
Quantitative Skills: Arithmetic/Computation, Graphs, Vectors and Matrices

Field Trip Guide: The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami--Consequences of Living on the Leading Edge in Alaska
Robert Witter (ANGLE Project)
This is a guide to a field trip that visits sites in Anchorage, Girdwood, and Whittier Alaska. The focus of the trip is the understand the science and societal impacts of the 1964 Alaska Mag 9.2 earthquake as well as the ongoing EarthScope research on geohazards to help us better plan for future events. Participants practice a tsunami evacuation walk as way to foster discussion of preparedness actions and challenges.

Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Images/Illustrations, Lecture
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Informal, General Public
Subject: Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Earthquakes, Tsunami, Natural Hazards, Mitigation and Preparedness, Tectonics, Geodesy, Engineering, Geoscience
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS
Special Interest: Field-Based Teaching and Learning, Hazards, Quantitative
Quantitative Skills: Graphs