Challenge!
    You are sitting on the couch, watching your favorite TV show.  It is just a  normal day, just like every other...when all of a sudden you feel something strange.  Your house is shaking!  Perhaps it is a large truck rolling by, or more blasting in the near by quarry.  But NO!  The shaking is getting worse.  You can hear a low rumble as well as dishes falling out of the cupboards in the kitchen and crashing on the floor.  The picture hanging over the couch falls of the wall, and you move out of the way just in time.  This is an EARTHQUAKE!  What exactly is an earthquake, and if you are in one, what should you do?!  Your job is to find out the answer to these questions!

Use the links below to find out these things:
            1. What causes earthquakes?
                    -What are three different types of tectonic plate boundaries?
                    -What are three different types of faults?
            2.  How are earthquakes measured?
                    -What is the Richter Scale?
            3.  What are the consequences of earthquakes?
                    -Research one specific earthquake, and what the aftermath was.

Your Journey
Use these web sites to find the answers to these questions.  Answer the questions in your earthquake journal.  Make sure that you not only record your findings, but draw diagrams as well.

http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/eqabc.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/#
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/eqmyth.html
http://www.fema.gov/library/quakef.htm
http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/

Need help with any earthquake terms?  Use this site!
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/general/handouts/glossary.html

Still need more information?  Try these search engines using various key words.
Search Engines:
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Questions?  Comments?  Mail:
kshafer@uvm.edu