Recent Earthquake Locations

MAPS
Recent Earthquake Maps Maps of North American and Major Worldwide earthquakes in the last 14 days
Seismicity Maps of Recent Earthquake Activity in the USA
Central U.S. Earthquake Map Map of Recent Earthquake Locations in the Central United States
Local Quake Information ANSS Location Maps of Recent Midwest Earthquakes and Mechanisms
Focal Mechanism Plots
Focal mechanism determinations for US

TABLES
Central U. S. Central U.S. A tabulation of recent earthquakes in the Central United States
North America and World World.. A tabulation of recent earthquakes in the Central World. A tabulation of recent earthquakes from cooperating networks worldwide North American and Major Worldwide earthquakes in the last 14 days The last column gives the organization responsible for the preliminary location:

STUDENT ASSIGNMENT

1. At the beginning of the school year start with a world map from. an office supply store

2. Carefully draw faint pencil lines on the maps to indicate latitudes and longitudes at 1 degree intervals

3. Then On Monday, download the list of earthquakes of the previous 14 days from my web site

Take a few minutes in the morning to plot the locations of earthquakes with magnitude >= 5 (there will not be an overly large number) Use different adhesive dots to represent magnitude and different colors to represent depth.

4. The benefits of this task are

  • since the earthquake locations will have a geographic identifier,

    00/03/05 14:36:31 47.22N 154.12E 33.0 4.4Mb B KURIL ISLAND

    the students will learn geography.

  • the students will learn about plotting points on a map given geographical coordinates
  • the students will be interested in natural disasters
  • at the end of the school year, a sufficient number of earthquakes will be plotted to outline the tectonic plate boundaries.

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Problems? :Email: rbh@eas.slu.edu

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