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Earthquake Shaking and Damage part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
This student homework and problem set has students quantitatively earthquake hazard, shaking and damage.

Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), Informal
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Determining Earthquake Probability and Recurrence from Past Seismic Events part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
A homework/classroom activity where students collect historical earthquake information and use it to forecast the probability of larger earthquakes.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

BotEC: The San Andreas Fault's Rate of Movement part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Peter Kresan
Question: The San Andrea is an active fault zone, marked by frequent earthquake activity. The crust southwest of this strike-slip fault (including Los Angeles) is sliding to the northwest relative to the other ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Energy Released in an Earthquake part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Question A magnitude 8.5 earthquake (such as the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska) releases about 1x1018 joules of energy. The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima released about 1.5x1013 joules of energy. How ...