Internet Scavenger Hunt for Earthquake Research
 

1. http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/history/history1.html
What did some of “ancient peoples” believe caused earthquakes?

2. http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoService/faqs/how.asp
What causes earthquakes?

3. http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/basics/
An earthquake is a sudden shaking of the ground. They generate seismic waves which can be recorded on a sensitive instrument called a:

4. http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/seismo/ 
The earliest seismograph was invented in:
 
5. Click on http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=14730  
On Good Friday 1964, one of the most severe North American earthquakes ever recorded struck. Where?________________________  It measured an intensity of_________________?

6. http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=40283
What is a Richter scale?  

7. http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=40283
Numbers for the Richter scale range from:

8.  http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=14730
The immediate cause of most shallow earthquakes is the sudden release of stress along a fault. What is a fault?

9. http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/20031021.html 
 How are volcanoes and earthquakes related?

10a. Visit this site: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ , click on “list of latest worldwide earthquakes”. After looking the list, what area in the world, measured the biggest magnitude?
10b. What was the magnitude  number for this area?

11. http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/inside/
By analyzing the seismograms from many earthquakes, scientists have discovered that three main levels or shells exist within the Earth: what are they?

12. http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/inside/core.html
Of the 3 levels, this level contains iron, and when it flows it generates a magnetic field:

13. http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/scec/webquakes/
This map shows “up to the minute” the last approximately 500 earthquakes detected by seismographs in southern California. Which area (s) in California has a magnitude of 4.0?

 14. http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoService/faqs/eqlist.asp
Can earthquakes occur in New York State?

15. http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/articles/citiesatrisk_04.html
Has New York City ever been hit by an earthquake?
If so, when?

 17. Watch an educational movie clip about earthquakes.
Click on this link to watch: http://www.fema.gov/kids/v_lib.htm
List 5 facts that you learned from this movie?

Created June 2004
by Miss Rabinowitz-Instructional Technology Coorinator