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SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 2: GMAP, MDA, and MUSTANG Databrowser part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS GMAP Station Browser to identify what seismic stations have data available based on a geographic region, a time ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
SSBW - Linux Tutorial 1: Basics part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) navigate directories and pathnames in Linux, 3) ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Transform Boundary Investigation part of Teaching Activities
Jacqueline Reber, Iowa State University
Students will conduct experiments (or watch videos of the experiment in the online version) to measure interseismic intervals and offset during slip on simple block models. They will compare their findings with ...
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 1: IRIS Earthquake Browser part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will use the IRIS Earthquake Browser to 1) explore global geographic earthquake patterns, particularly in relation to plate boundaries, ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 3: Web Services part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students generate and interpret IRIS web service requests for 1) station metadata and availability, 2) information about the 2002 Magnitude 7.9 ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 5: Seismic Noise and Quieting During COVID19 part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) download a Jupyter notebook from GitHub, 2) practice using basic Python syntax, 3) use the ObsPy library to retrieve a large amount ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Stick-Slip Faulting and Earthquakes CogSketch geoscience worksheet part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Bridget Garnier
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. This worksheet introduces stick-slip faulting and earthquakes by having students: 1) Identify sticking points in strike-slip fault traces; and ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Stress/Strain/Strain Analysis, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 6: Fetch Scripts for Web Service Requests part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) generate and interpret IRIS web service requests for metadata, earthquake information, and seismogram data using Fetch scripts from ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
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.
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
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Locating and Measuring Earthquakes Using Real Seismic Data part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Kelly Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology
The objective is to locate an earthquake and measure its Richter magnitude using real data recorded by seismographs.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review