Investigating earthquakes through regional seismicity
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| Audience/Grade: | 8 - High School Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Civil Engineering |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Laboratory/Experiment/Field Activity |
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| Publisher(s): |
Southern California Earthquake Center |
| Description: | This SCEC educational module has been designed to provide students with the opportunity to interactively investigate the nature of earthquakes. The module has been divided into three major sections, "What is an Earthquake?", "The Distribution of Earthquakes", and "Measuring Earthquakes". Each section presents background material and interactive learning activities allowing students to understand such characteristics of earthquakes as their associated faults, rates of occurrence, magnitudes, and geographic distribution. |
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| Keywords: | Earthquakes seismicity faults tectonics geology |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data |
| Difficulty: |
Difficult |
| Interactivity Level: |
High |
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| Publication Date: | March 2001 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.data.scec.org/Module/module.html |
| Copyright and Use Restrictions: |
Copyright |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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