Earthquake Hazards Around You
Kelli Wakefield, Mesa Community College
Students chose a room where they spend a significant amount of time. Next, they assess the room for earthquake hazards, create a map depicting where these hazards are located, and finally, describe what would ...

Earthquake Hazards: The next big one?
John Taber, EarthScope Consortium
In this activity, students explore of the concept of probability and the distribution of earthquake sizes, and then work to understand how earthquake hazards are described by probabilities. Students then work in ...

Mitigating Volcanic Hazards
Lynne Elkins, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
This activity spans two in-class sessions of 1-1.5 hours each, and includes both a small group activity focused on a set of volcanic case studies and a full-class role-playing activity where the class must decide, ...

Geologic Hazards and the Built Environment
Jennifer Pickering
Collaborative, research-based activity of varying lengths. Main outcome is to identify potential vulnerabilities in the built environment and possible solutions.

Exploring Earthquake Hazards with GIS
Constantin Cranganu, CUNY Brooklyn College
This activity is a straightforward application of GIS to assessment of earthquake hazards. The students get more modeling skills with GIS and a better understanding of earthquake hazards.

Living on Active Volcanoes: A Learning Game on Volcanoes and Hazards on the Island of Hawai‘i
× Provenance: Andrew Greene, Hawaii Pacific University Reuse: This item is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ You may reuse this item for non-commercial purposes as long as you provide attribution and offer any derivative works under a similar license. Andrew Greene (Hawai'i Pacific University) David Kelley (Hawaiʻi Pacific University; BS Student '17) Robert Siemers (Environmental Designs, Kaua'i) Michael Garcia (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
Maka'u Pele, hazardous Pele, is a fun, competitive and educational game that challenges and tests players about Hawaiian volcanic activity and its features and hazards. Before playing the learning game, ...

Evaluating Risks, Benefits, and Hazards: A Site-Selection Simulation Activity
Christopher Berg, Orange Coast College
An in-class jigsaw activity, in which students play the role of investigators consulting on behalf of an industrial client seeking an appropriate location to site a new facility to handle environmentally-damaging ...

Downloading Earthquake Data from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Site for Anywhere in the World and Studying it Using ArcGIS
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Students download earthquake data from the USGS Earthquake Hazards website and plot and anlyze the earthquakes using ArcMap and ArcScene.

ConcepTest: Earthquake Hazards
If you lived in a city located 20 km from the epicenter of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake, which of the following would you be most likely to experience? a) ground shaking b) landslides c) fault rupture d) tsunami e) ...

Engaging With Earthquake Hazard and Risk
Jennifer Pickering
This introductory activity engages learners in the study of earthquake hazards and the risk these hazards pose to humans in the communities in which we live. Learners will compare three maps of Anchorage, AK, depicting spatial information related to seismic hazards to generate questions about the factors that influence shaking intensity and damage to the built environment during earthquakes.